Poll: Quick programming language poll to settle an argument

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Post by Morieris » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 6:47 PM UTC

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Re: Poll: Quick programming language poll to settle an argument

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Post by Morieris » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 7:16 PM UTC

Thanks for the sweet data! Could I ask for anyone who only knows "other languages", which ones do you mostly use? What sort of field are you in?

Re: Poll: Quick programming language poll to settle an argument

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Post by frossie » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 7:56 PM UTC

Morieris wrote: post #2

Thanks for the sweet data! Could I ask for anyone who only knows "other languages", which ones do you mostly use? What sort of field are you in?

Science shop - most of our development is in perl (OO style), C and Fortran, with a smattering of whatever else we are saddled with.

Re: Poll: Quick programming language poll to settle an argument

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Post by kingsley_20 » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 7:57 PM UTC

Morieris wrote: post #2

Thanks for the sweet data! Could I ask for anyone who only knows "other languages", which ones do you mostly use? What sort of field are you in?

I use scripting languages almost exclusively ( I haven't written C in about 10 yrs). In order of preference, JavaScript, Python & PHP.

Re: Poll: Quick programming language poll to settle an argument

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Post by darkxanthos » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 8:06 PM UTC

Morieris wrote: post #2

Thanks for the sweet data! Could I ask for anyone who only knows "other languages", which ones do you mostly use? What sort of field are you in?

C#, Python, Javascript

Re: Poll: Quick programming language poll to settle an argument

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Post by steveklabnik » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 8:16 PM UTC

Morieris wrote: post #2

Thanks for the sweet data! Could I ask for anyone who only knows "other languages", which ones do you mostly use? What sort of field are you in?

I use Ruby (via Rails and HacketyHack) the most, but I also code in Haskell, C, Javascript, D... and some others, just not very often.

Re: Poll: Quick programming language poll to settle an argument

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Post by davidw » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 8:21 PM UTC

What's the argument? I run www.langpop.com, so I'm interested in these kinds of things.

Re: Poll: Quick programming language poll to settle an argument

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Post by davidw » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 8:29 PM UTC

Morieris wrote: post #2

Thanks for the sweet data! Could I ask for anyone who only knows "other languages", which ones do you mostly use? What sort of field are you in?

Ruby, Hecl, Tcl, C, occasionally Javascript and other things like Erlang.

Re: Poll: Quick programming language poll to settle an argument

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Post by awa » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 8:30 PM UTC

Morieris wrote: post #2

Thanks for the sweet data! Could I ask for anyone who only knows "other languages", which ones do you mostly use? What sort of field are you in?

C#, Perl, a bit of scheme and lisp.

Re: Poll: Quick programming language poll to settle an argument

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Post by Morieris » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 9:41 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #7

What's the argument? I run www.langpop.com, so I'm interested in these kinds of things.

Actually a bit of market research for a book. Trying to decide between two cover blurbs: "A programming background in Java or C++ is recommended." or "A background in object-oriented languages is recommended."

The book uses some Java and C++ comparisons when introducing new concepts.

Edit: Also, awesome site. Thanks for the link!