I'm curious as to why D doesn't get more love. It's had a pretty rocky liftoff, but there's a lot to like there, regardless of your preferred programming paradigm.
Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
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Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
#412How ironic is that when someone ask you to write a program that put some text ob screen and you are unfortunately using C#/Java or similar languages, your code comes out something as :
public class main {
public static void main(string[] args) {
Console.WriteLine("Hello world");
}
}
Which should have been just: (print "Hello world")
Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
#413Go
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#414Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Agreed that PowerShell really does make command line work on Windows much more pleasant than the old DOS prompt. I just discovered a PowerShell module for working with Git (https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git). It shows status info right in your prompt line and does tab completion of git commands and branches.
Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
#415Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't sound all that good to me. My steps to finding what IQueryable provides: * Cmd+Tab to Chrome * Cmd+L for location focus * \IQueryable searches DuckDuckGo for IQueryable and takes me to first result I get to use the editor I want (hint, not visual studio), and I know a lot more about IQueryable anyway and can continue poking around in the docs to learn more about the 'nearby' bits of the API. I don't real…
"Here's how to instantly find documentation on something." "That doesn't sound all that good to me. Here's how I do it in multiple steps, in a different window!" Do you see the problem here?
No, I don't. He's using different tools for different jobs, which is the way it should be. Not an integrated mess of a thousand and one things that should be stand-alone programs with intercommunication ability.
Those who don't understand UNIX are forever doomed to re-implement it - poorly. Which is the story of every IDE ever.
Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
#416Groovy
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#417rebol (& family)
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#418No Go or haxe? Epic poll failure! Of the ones on the list, I'd say C# is my favorite language though I virtually never use it due to the practical and political problems that tie it to Microsoft.
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Re: Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
#419Ruby and Lisp for me. A couple of years ago it would have been Python but not any more.
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#420Standard ML. The implementations and the standard library situation both need a lot of work, but the language itself is by far the cleanest and most practical very-high-level language I've encountered.