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Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
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Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
#362How do I vote this polling crap down? Pointless and subjective and if this was stackoverflow, would be deleted.
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#363I'd be interested in hearing why anyone would choose Tcl.
I have to use it during the day, but use Ruby on my side-project. Tcl and it's lists (and lists-of-lists) is wicked painful - especially compared to my Ruby experience at this point.
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#364Hey, the C language is pretty well scored. I really really loved the C. For me, it's the king/father language. Everything is in it seriously (I mean, types, flow controls, memory management etc.), and it's just on top of the assembly language. I could code with C during centuries I think. By the way, Ruby is pretty well scored also. I should try it eh. Is it for back-end programming or front-end, native apps? What's…
"And about Python? Why is it so awesome?" Because you already know it. Turn around and look at the pseudo-code on your whiteboard.
Generally my pseudo code looks like: for all for all for all =)
I highly prefer engineered coding than syntaxic coding. So there is no code in my white board, only -french- words. Code follow. And unlike mathematic and what most people think, concerning coding, details never stop you. Or really really really rarely. Bad design (=engineering) do and a lot.
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Amen, I almost totally jumped ship when MVC was a 'new' thing, if they hadn't brought out ASP.Net MVC when they did I would have left. The only thing I hate about C# is the 'magic' they keep trying introducing to the frameworks. ASP.Net was bloody awful but if you haven't checked out MVC 4, this is truly WTF were you thinking MS: http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/getting-started-with-asp... GetAllProducts magically…
Sorry, wait - how is this different than the RoR magic. Where you can do stuff like MyObject.findByArbitraryProperty and it just works? That's PFM if you ask me. Django, RoR, and Node all have lots of magic bits. You don't have to use any of the magic, which also goes for MVC. (I do agree with you though - just because other frameworks have magic bits doesn't mean I like it in MVC. I would also prefer it not be there…
.NET magic is generally limiting things down so that happy path works and edge cases are expensive. Other platforms do a much better job of this because they start on an edge and make that run through happy path by convention. I can't speak to it being language limitations or just the way Microsoft works, but they almost always seem to get this part wrong.
See ASP.NET MVC Routing as a example (kinda related to the above).
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Which isn't true anyway, since anonymous inner classes are just very verbose and awkward lambdas. (I'm a Java hater but I'm also a horrible pedant)
True. Then again, what's the practical point of lambdas that aren't concisely expressed?
There are plenty of practical uses: http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/FunctionalExpl...
Note that the Guava lib specifically points out how ugly this is.
I prefer Clojure.
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#367SML
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What is the Python equivalent to Puppet and chef?
Fabric comes to mind.
Fabric is more of a task-oriented SSH replacement with some really nice bells and whistles, much different from Puppet or Chef. Some folks are working on Salt Stack which is python-based and more akin to the others.
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Well, I'm not the gp, but I am a former C# guy who's happy to be out of that world. 1) I dislike C#'s types; they're neither as strong and intelligent as a ML/Haskell language nor as convenient as a Python/Ruby family language. 2) I much prefer the sense of design displayed by Python and Ruby open source projects over C#. (Not that there aren't issues there!) 3) I hate Visual Studio. Nice debugger, crappy interface f…
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've absolutely felt your pain. Some of those things have maybe improved (I use git every day, I love my PowerShell, and Visual Studio + ReSharper is glorious once you tell some of the cruft to stay out of your way) but it's still a long way from perfect.
It's amazing how many people either dismiss PowerShell out of hand because it's different, or don't even think about it when talking about Windows commandline support. Getting .NET objects returned, rather than piping text around is awesome. So is having an IDE specifically for writing PowerShell scripts. I'm still learning PowerShell, and love bash, but as powerful as bash is, in some ways it feels very primitive in comparison. If PowerShell 15 years old when bash was released, would anyone consider it better than PowerShell?
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#370C# really feels like the most mature language that I've ever dealt with. Writing it feels clear, if something is wrong the debugger is very clear. The number of features that are there is incredible (especially post C# 2.0 when they added generics). Properties are delightful. How do you convert to a string? Convert.ToString(). How about an integer? Knowing only that one, it's what you'd expect! I also picked JavaScri…
The new await/async in C# 5 is beautiful. Just try/catch around an await and suddenly async is easy to read and handle errors.