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What's your second favorite computer languange?

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 11:17 am
by nielsene
(Since asking for people's favorite languange here would be a little silly :) )

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 11:22 am
by hob_goblin
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

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 12:47 pm
by llimllib
i think probably python - I think it has a very elegant design.

<soapbox>
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.
</soapbox>

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 1:48 pm
by hob_goblin
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?

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 2:12 pm
by llimllib
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.

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 2:43 pm
by haagen
I think java is a neat language.

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 3:06 pm
by protokol
Definitely C++. I'm an OOP guy and so therefore I love templates and classes in C++.

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 3:09 pm
by Takuma
I think Java... although it's quite hard to remember all the methods etc. :roll:

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:59 pm
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

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 2:01 am
by twigletmac
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>

Mac

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 3:55 am
by mikeq
Second favourite is PHP :)

Favourite is Object Pascal (Delphi)

Delphi

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 10:36 am
by AVATAr
Delphi is the one!

:lol:

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 10:56 am
by gotDNS
CSS, if I may say so....

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:46 pm
by BDKR
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.

Later on,
BDKR

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 12:28 pm
by m3mn0n
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)