What's your second favorite computer languange?

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What's your second favorite computer languange?

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(Since asking for people's favorite languange here would be a little silly :) )
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SQL :)

It's not really a programming language, but you said computer language...

Programming language though, i've been playing around with c++ a little... and doing a little java. Not sure what I like more
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i think probably python - I think it has a very elegant design.

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I know you didn't ask for it, but my least favorite is Perl - it's just too ugly for words. You can feel the cruft they added to get any new feature into it.
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I've never read up on python... have any links to some articles on it? or can you explain in a nutshell what it is good for?
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python.org
Free online book on programming in python

Python is a scripting language with excellent object orientation and very intuitive syntax. It makes developing very quick.
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I think java is a neat language.
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Definitely C++. I'm an OOP guy and so therefore I love templates and classes in C++.
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I think Java... although it's quite hard to remember all the methods etc. :roll:
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Post by volka »

I'm most familiar with C++ so probably I have to love it ;)

following hob_goblin's logic I have to say: X-Path; I like the beauty of it's completeness if you look at it from set theory's point of view
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Logo definitely, the little turtle wandering around the screen was cool. I guess a lot of you guys are too young to have ever come across it but it was the first programming language I learnt (aged 7 or 8 at primary school :) )... </nostalgia>

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Second favourite is PHP :)

Favourite is Object Pascal (Delphi)
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Delphi

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Delphi is the one!

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CSS, if I may say so....
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Well, I'm going off a bit and saying Objective C. I agree with Brad Cox and his arguments for dynamically typed objects. Besides, I'm not married to OOP so I like the freedom to use Objects when I need them or want them. That's another reason that PHP is so cool.

Besides, structures in C are awesome! It's like the idea of objects without the methods. Just encapsulated data.

Now what I would like to see is a compiled language that is completely dynamically typed. As a matter of fact, a compiler of PHP would be cool to me. That would become my favorite language in a hurry.

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This is really the only language besides HTML (if you include that) that i have good knowledge of, but i have printed of 50 pages of c++ info and i'm buying a book on it so i would have to that that! 8)
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