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Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

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Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

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Post by facundo_olano »

meow wrote: post #113
simonsarris wrote: post #16

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…

Writing C# code in Visual Studio feels almost like telepathy. Intellisense is so good that, it nearly writes 30-40% of total code.

Yes, but with Ruby or Python 60% of that code wouldn't even need to be written.

Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

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Post by bitcracker »

LISP and Scheme still have one killer feature all other languages don't have: extremely powerful macros.

http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/Lisp-Notes/Macros.html

This article gives a good insight what about LISP is so awesome:

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

I also vote for Ada because this is the best language I know to write maximum quality software. I would love to make money for living by coding Ada for Embedded Systems.

Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

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Post by drhowarddrfine »

drhowarddrfine wrote: post #410
sreque wrote: post #216

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I like Mono, and I respect the work that they've accomplished. It is incredibly difficult to build a runtime like .NET, especially as it was never designed to be cross-platform. That said, the Mono experience on Linux is inferior to that on Windows. MonoDevelop is nowhere near Visual Studio, so that I just develop on Windows and deploy on Linux. Unfortunately, that doesn't help the fact that both the soft and hard de…

And no self-respecting developer would ever use Mono on nix anyway because the nix tools run circles around anything .NET/Mono.

I knew this would be downvoted by the predominantly Windows users here but, if they knew anything about *nix, they wouldn't do that.

Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

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Post by 4ydx »

lusr wrote: post #426
llimllib wrote: post #278

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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…

As someone who's more than happy with C#, I'm wondering if there's a world out there I'm missing but I can't really connect with what you're saying. 1. "Strong and intelligent"? "Convenient"? 2. "Sense of design"? My current side project includes a web scraper which uses the following open source projects: AutoMapper, CsvHelper, HtmlAgilityPack, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, Modernizer, Moq, NLog, MongoDB C# driver, Pet…

As far as #4 is concerned, windows is not configurable and the "command line" is an absolute joke, which renders the idea that it has a better developer experience absolute rubbish :) The command line is super powerful and highly convenient in a developers hands.

Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

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Post by FrojoS »

neovive wrote: post #489
veyron wrote: post #178

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How is this C#+.NET integration on mono? Are the relevant low-level facilities translated well into linux or osx?

Unity3d ships with Mono/C# and MonoDevelop as one of the programming language options for its game engine. I haven't used it as much, since I prefer the Javascript version, but most (if not all) high-end game developers opt for scripting in C#.

I'd be curious to hear, why.

I will be working on a Unity3D project and the team wants me to use C# with VS. As a Mac user and Open Source fan, I didn't jump at the idea. Glad to hear, that a lot of people think C# is a good choice. I'm excited to learn it!

Any suggestions for a good book or website? I've been programming in C and C++ quite a bit, but its been a few years. I've only been doing functional programming since then and would probably need a refresher on object oriented programming.

Can someone comment on the best development environment for Unity/C# when using a 2011 Mac Air with 4GB Ram? Should I install bootcamp, use Parallels Desktop or Unity+Mono under Mac OS?

Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

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Post by 4ydx »

llimllib wrote: post #485
lusr wrote: post #426

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As someone who's more than happy with C#, I'm wondering if there's a world out there I'm missing but I can't really connect with what you're saying. 1. "Strong and intelligent"? "Convenient"? 2. "Sense of design"? My current side project includes a web scraper which uses the following open source projects: AutoMapper, CsvHelper, HtmlAgilityPack, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, Modernizer, Moq, NLog, MongoDB C# driver, Pet…

1. In Haskell and ML, I don't feel like I spend my life Listing , X >, and I have type classes. In Python and Ruby, I don't have to specify types. This lets me do all kinds of convenient things. I don't think it's far out to suggest these sorts of advantages, and I am 100% not interested in rehashing a flame war that's been had a thousand times over. Please allow that these are my judgements, and I hope you don't nee…

Hell yeah vim rocks!

So too does the command line! high five

Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

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Post by spacemanaki »

batista wrote: post #397
spacemanaki wrote: post #352

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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)

Horrible as in "no good" pedant? Because, no "anonymous inner classes" are no lambdas. They are, well, classes kludgily used to mimic a lambda proper.

lordlicorice (the ggp of my post) suggested that there is "no substitute for lambdas" and I was intending to correct that. Anonymous inner classes are definitely a substitute.

Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

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Post by pbz »

tomjen3 wrote: post #88
hackinthebochs wrote: post #50

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Definitely agree with you on C#. It feels like this is what a standard, mature, widespread language should be. There are other languages that are better for specific tasks, but for the general programming language, C# really hits the sweet spot in terms of features, expressability, readability, and environment. This is the language that Java should have been--could have been. Also, I dread getting asked on my next in…

That is easy -- non nullable objects. What I mean by that is that you can already specify that some numbers may be nullable. I would love to be able to specify that some objects cannot be null and have the type-checker verify it. Even better I would have an option type so that you never need to use null, ever.

I remember Anders saying that that was one of his regrets for not implementing this from the beginning. According to him adding this now would break quite a few things, but he hasn't yet given up on the idea.
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