Favorite programming software?

[alindamarry]

what is your Favorite programming software?

[Geek-9pm]

Please, this question has been asked many times already.
1. Are you loping for a personal recommendation that would be good for you?
2. Or may we assume you want a good conversation starter when you meet a geek?

Number one has already done many times over. But if you want #2, that would b a good theme for this thread.   

[bret68holt]

My favorite programming software is C,C++.Once you got the basic then its every easy to develop a software application on that...

[BC_Programmer]

My favorite programming software is C,C++.Once you got the basic then its every easy to develop a software application on that...

C and C++ aren't programming software. They're programming languages.

[bret68holt]

Yes i know these are languages.I have made a mistake ..Sorry for that..Actually my favorite programming software are MPLAB, MPASM..

[Geek-9pm]

I think it is time to broaden this topic.
The question may be more social rather than academic. Give the wrong answer and you will not get invited to the Geek parties. Often it is the women who want to know the right answers to help them socialize with the Geeky boys. To this end. notice how these girls talk in a cool neat place, where is lots of programming and networking and mobile applications. are happening  Google HQ. Geek girls with their favorite kind of programming research. Here is the Video. Notice the software. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESQUDyMxrk

[Linux711]

what is your Favorite programming software?

VB6, Dev-C++, and PowerBASIC w/ FireFly. Dev-C++ is not the most popular, but it's free and good enough for me.

[DaveLembke]

Borland 5, MS Visual C++ 6.0 ( both of these for C/C++ )
ActivePERL for PERL ( http://www.activestate.com/activeperl )

If you are interested in a MS Software package for programming I think they still offer Visual Studio Express 2010 for C++, C#, VB, etc for FREE for non-commercial purposes. Only catch to programming in these is that you will have to have DOT.NET 3.5 installed which is an optional Windows component on XP. Might be included in Vista or 7

Looks like MS now changed the rules on the Express editions... My Visual Studio 2008 Express does not require activation within 30 days or it breaks like 2010 requires now. At least activation is FREE, I guess they just want to track potential customers!!!   
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/

[Geek-9pm]

Not sue, but I think you can still get a free 2008 Visual Studio somewhere.

[BC_Programmer]

Only catch to programming in these is that you will have to have DOT.NET 3.5 installed

the installer includes it, or at least checks and will install it if necessary (I think, I really don't know, 2008 Professional includes the framework components.)

[DaveLembke]

Projects built and compiled with the MS VS Express 2008 and 2010 if run on another XP computer I know have to have the Dot.NET 3.5 installed or they wont function. You are correct that Dot.NET is included with the install of the MS Studio Express which would satisfy the system its being coded up from, but if you plan on running your work on other machines, its not as simple as having an older stand alone EXE like say MS Visual C++ 6.0 which would run on any Windows machine pretty much without having to add the newer 3.5 framework. The newer builds 2008 and 2010 require Dot.NET 3.5 to be added to those workstations etc to run the programs. Just figured I'd mention it since I dont think an error message appears. I think the program will just open and close right away with no reason with 3.5 framework missing as for I remember some C++ projects behaving this way without it.

[BC_Programmer]

Projects compiled with Visual Studio 2008 using a .NET language or C++/CLI require .NET 3.5; standard C++ programs do not (they do however require the C++ 2008 run-time redistributable).

Also, I hardly see that as a limitation, certainly not one that should become a deciding factor, not for any reason I can think of.

An Error message does appear- "The Application Failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135) click on OK to terminate the application" It doesn't explicitly say "you need to install the framework" or anything, but then again Visual Basic 6 applications don't say "you need to install the VB runtimes" and C/C++ apps don't say "you need the Microsoft C/C++ Run-time" either, so... yeah.

[ooe]

i know little about programming, but i know visual studio. 

[cintari]

I'm learning JAVA right now. It's my favorite out of all of them so far.

[guss]

dev-c++ is outdated.  Most of the programmers from dev-c++ are working on codeblocks, which is more up-to-date, and better in general, I think.

[Geek-9pm]

dev-c++ is outdated.  Most of the programmers from dev-c++ are working on codeblocks, which is more up-to-date, and better in general, I think.

Who says it is outdated? And what part of it is outdated? Why should it matter? I have tools I got over ten years ago and they still work for simple tasks.
An why single out Dev C++ as being outdated? They all get very dated after two or three years. Banach files are very dated, people still write them.

[guss]

I was just being informative, no need for hostility.  But, if you want to know, the dev-c++ site says:



February 21th 2005 : Dev-C++ 5 Beta 9.2 (4.9.9.2) released !


January 13th 2005 : You can now support Dev-C++ by making a donation !


December 1st 2004 : Dev-C++ 5 Beta 9.1 (4.9.9.1) released !


July 31th 2004 : Dev-C++ 5 Beta 9.0 (4.9.9.0) released !


June 9th 2004 : Dev-C++ 5 Beta 8.10 (4.9.8.10) released !


May 9th 2004 : Dev-C++ 5 Beta 8.9 (4.9.8.9) released !


February 3rd 2004 : Dev-C++ 5 Beta 8.7 (4.9.8.7) released !


November 23th 2003 : Dev-C++ 5 Beta 8.5 (4.9.8.5) released !


October 20th 2003 : Dev-C++ 5 Beta 8.4 (4.9.8.4) released !

[BC_Programmer]

It's not only outdated (last updated early 2005) but it's been deprecated by other free offerings- particularly codeblocks. Most of the developers who worked on Dev/C++, as guss stated, are now working on code::blocks- it's unlikely Dev/C++ will be enhanced  in the future. This isn't even counting the issues I noted (such as using a User interface dialog from over 20 years ago).

Why should it matter?

Because people who use compilers usually want their programs to work with recent configurations. An analogous statement could be to ask "why it matters" wether your windows SDK is for windows 95 or windows 7. Of course considering I'm arguing with somebody who still thinks FORTRAN is the bees knees clearly I'm wasting my breath.

I have tools I got over ten years ago and they still work for simple tasks.

Compiling the code to a project-organized application is anything but a simple task. The fact is dev/C++ is free. So is Code::Blocks. code::Blocks is better, more compatible, and is still an active project.

[Geek-9pm]

Thank you BC. I do like to be up of up to date almost.
Fortran is old, but not forgotten.

...
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers. It is free software under the GNU General Public License.
...
Where possible the routines have been based on reliable public-domain Fortran packages such as FFTPACK and QUADPACK, which the developers of GSL have reimplemented in C with modern coding conventions....
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

So they had to have somebody that could still read it.

[BC_Programmer]

So they had to have somebody that could still read it.

Really? that's an interesting assumption, since I ported perl modules to Visual Basic classes years before I knew anything about perl. You are drawing the incorrect implication that because somebody is able to understand code from another programming language they must have had experience using it previously. That is false. You don't need to have been working with FORTRAN for many years to be able to port it to another language.

[Geek-9pm]

Good point BC. My First  Certified computer code was COBOL. Now I can't write even a line of it.
BTW, it is now Fortran, not  FORTRAN.
And if you keep doing that I will call Vista VISTA. 

[BC_Programmer]

BTW, it is now Fortran, not  FORTRAN.
And if you keep doing that I will call Vista VISTA. 

I had to rewrite that passage, I recall making it proper-case but I rewrote it and must have written it in caps.

They are both valid; FORTRAN refers to the versions before FORTRAN-90 (no doubt, then, you are familiar with the "FORTRAN", rather then the Fortran variants) whereas Fortran refers to later versions.

Either way, Fortran is a acronym for FORmula TRANslator, so it's valid anyway; Vista doesn't stand for anything.

[Geek-9pm]

Vista doesn't stand for anything.

Let me quote that in future posts.   

[Geek-9pm]

I am learning C++ ....It is my favorite programming language.

If it is your favorite, that is enough reason.

For what it is worth, most modem languages allow you to get into the library of some other language if necessary. So you don't have to switch over to another language just because there is some feature you don't readily have in you favorite language.