Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

Post by moonchrome » Sat, Mar 24, 2012, 4:40 AM UTC

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Legacy code is a problem in every language. Whether the language evolves, or just the common insights of how to use it best. In fact, C# deals excellently with legacy code. While, unlike the JVM, .NET is not binary backward compatible (allowing some excellent language improvements that Java still has not managed to pull off), it is nearly (but not entirely) source code backward compatible. Sure, this allows to old co…

FYI, Python has an automated script for migrating code from Python 2.x to Python 3.x

Post by insidius » Sat, Mar 24, 2012, 4:54 AM UTC

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C# 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…

I've spent most of my time in the open source world, and I would have to agree that C# on .NET feels like the most mature high-level software development tool I've ever used. C#'s biggest strength isn't the language. While the language is nice, there isn't a lot you can do with it in terms of productive development that you can't at least approximate in Java, especially with a good IDE to generate your boiler plate f…

Post by manojlds » Sat, Mar 24, 2012, 5:06 AM UTC

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Python has been the de facto scripting language of choice for automation in a number of industries for quite some time. I don't believe (but correct me if I'm wrong) that Ruby has ever gained much traction outside of the software development world. Perhaps we're just seeing some natural consolidation.

Ruby is the language that Puppet and Chef (the 2 most popular configuration management systems) are based on.

Post by halter73 » Sat, Mar 24, 2012, 5:10 AM UTC

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I agree in large, but there are some rough edges. -It's wordy. The var keyword was a step in the right direction, but there's still a lot of redundant type information, even compared to other statically typed languages like Go or F#. -Legacy code. A lot of things that are concise and easy in C# 3.5+ were possible but hideous in older versions. Sadly, that code must still be maintained. -Null handling. Like another co…

var foo = thing1 ?? thing2 ?? thing3 ?? bar; This will work.

Post by jes5199 » Sat, Mar 24, 2012, 5:18 AM UTC