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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 reitzensteinm »

untog wrote: post #2

I find it difficult to divorce 'favourite language' from 'favourite stack'. I use C# a lot, and I love it. But it's tied into MS's heavy stack for web stuff (ASP.NET, etc.) so recently I've switched to using node.js and CoffeeScript in my projects. It's fantastic. So right now my favourite language is JavaScript/CoffeeScript, but just because of the things I can do with it.

I agree.

I'm not especially fond of the Haxe language, but it's Good Enough that I'm happy using it day to day.

However, its ability to export to so many different targets (C++, Javascript [+ Node.js], Java in beta I believe, Flash SWF, AS3, Tamarin, PHP etc) is a real killer feature.

Would that count towards this poll or not?

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

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Post by georgemcbay »

uolot wrote: post #28
andybak wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How sad - down-voted to oblivion on your first comment. Quick tip to get the appropriate tone right. Don't post anything that sounds like a typical Reddit comment.

maybe some day I will finally become reddit user :D

So brave!

(Don't worry, I have a ton of karma to burn here)

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

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Post by cgag »

tomjen3 wrote: post #9

None. I like Lisp but it has its problem. I don't like Java but it is useful and it has good tools and a ton of libraries. I like C, but it needs better libraries and it can be a little cumbersome to write. I don't like C++, but there are cases where one of its features are useful. I hate PHP but it is easy to write a quick backend in which can be deployed everywhere. I hate Javascript, but it is hard to beat it in t…

Sounds like you would like clojure.

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

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Post by S_A_P »

I primarily use c# but I dont know if it is my favorite because that is what I get paid to write code in or if its because I know C#, Objective-C, VB, SQL, and a bit of C++.

Of those languages, C# feels the most feature rich and easy to read, while I find working with the Cocoa framework and Objective-C particularly enjoyable. The others I work with but find no particular enjoyment from.

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