Comments on: Open Thread: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/ Fri, 25 May 2012 12:03:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ben Racine http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67764 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:07:13 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67764 I’m a math/science dork so that makes a lot of decisions for me… I use python/numpy/scipy for everything but the heaviest lifting… when I have to fall back on C/C++.

]]> By: Dale http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67763 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:30:45 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67763 The only two real programming languages: solder and assembly code. Why assembly code? Memory is the most expensive part of an embedded microcontroller. Assembly code miminizes that. Processor speed uses up power. Low-power equipment uses less power if you write code in assembly. The difficulty in writing assembly code encourages fast, tight code resulting in fast applications.

]]> By: pjach http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67762 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:34:51 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67762 xBase (Clipper / (x)Harbour). Simple & powerfull.

]]> By: Bruce M. Axtens http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67761 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:17:23 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67761 I’ve been working for ‘The Protium Project’ for about two years now and have done serious stuff in Compaq Visual Fortran, Microsoft C/C++, ObjectAda and GNAT, MASM32, Perl (with ActiveState’s PDK), VB6, and VBScript.

I really like Protium itself. Very powerful and expressive.

I’ve always has a soft spot for SNOBOL. Newer languages aren’t necessarily better and SNOBOL’s pattern matching will always make Regular Expression look lame.

Other favourites: Modula-2, Tcl, Mouse, Clipper (I still do maintenance programming in that), Euphoria (now open-source with a translate-to-C option) and SIL’s CC.

I’d like to learn (not in any order or priority): Forth, Dylan, Eiffel, Mumps, D and xblite.

I don’t think any languages suck. Mind you, I haven’t found a good use for most eso-langs. And for some weird reason, I’ve always found Java impenetrable.

]]> By: sar http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67760 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:51:59 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67760 cfml.

]]> By: Devon Burriss http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67759 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:40:34 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67759 CFML

]]> By: chalama http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67758 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:40:11 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67758 i love using C# with ASP.Net and ofcourse i am going to learn and focus on using f# as well that is coming out from Microsoft

]]> By: harry http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67757 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:55:45 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67757 i do coldfusion, php, asp and c. but i love more coldfusion…

]]> By: Adam Tuttle http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67756 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:08:26 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67756 Better late than never. Another ColdFusion programmer checking in. Can’t beat it for R.A.D. and the Framework & RIA community is so awesome it can be overwhelming!

]]> By: J.J. Merrick http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67755 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:50:56 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/13/open-thread-fave-programming-language/#comment-67755 @JonRowett FWIW I am a long time WWD reader and have even have my applications (Spot-On to be precise) mentioned on WWD (written in ColdFusion none the less). I read the blog post and added my 2 cents… only later to see someone had posted it to their CF blog and invited some people to add their 2 cents. Far from ballot stuffing and if you would like go tell a few people on your blog to post here also.

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