Perfered Programming Language

[macdad-]

What is your perfered Programming Language and why?

Note: If you voted for other than please say what.

I go for any BASIC language, object oriented programming is my thing, and i tried the Java SDK but i couldnt ever understand it.

[kpac]

I go for any BASIC language, object oriented programming is my thing

 

[ghostdog74]

potential flamebait.

[!~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~!]

VBScript FTW

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X = MsgBox("Your message",0+16, "box name")
Save that under a VBS file you can make a error mesage type your message and the box name to..

[Dias de verano]

TCL

Pink Floyd, I have reported your paypal pyramid scheme.

[macdad-]

who thinks that Java is just kinda pointless? all in favor say Aye.
Aye.

[Bones92]

PHP!! Though thats not really a programming language, its more of a script...

who thinks that Java is just kinda pointless? all in favor say Aye.
Aye.

AYE!

[Aegis]

I voted "other" because the poll only represents about three "families" of languages: 
BASIC, C, and from what I could find on the 'net, ASM either as a Java derivative, or ASM as an Oracle function.

I used to program in UNIX shell script.

Long live FORTRAN!   

[macdad-]

I thought Cobol is like Fortran. (kinda like a desecdent of Fortran like C++ is a desendent of C)

Just BASIC pwns! 

But i think Asm is pretty dang powerful it works right down to the Logic level, it loads something in register then sends it through the I/O bus to the display, No other code is like that but there arent any Asm compilers that i could find for a PC. Any suggestion?

[Sidewinder]

I thought Cobol is like Fortran. (kinda like a desecdent of Fortran like C++ is a desendent of C)

COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) is used mainly in corporate business, finance, and administrative systems. FORTRAN (Formula Translation) is used mainly in scientific settings like R&D. They are not related but both were early procedural languages.

No other code is like that but there arent any Asm compilers that i could find for a PC

If by ASM you're referring to Assembler, there are no compilers. Assembly language uses an assembler to convert source code to object code.

For many programmers, their preferred programming language is what their employer says it is.

 

[BC_Programmer]

Visual Basic 6 Enterprise Edition.

a quick little pic of my IDE setup.
http://www.geocities.com/bc_programming/vbwork.gif

I thought Cobol is like Fortran. (kinda like a desecdent of Fortran like C++ is a desendent of C)

Just BASIC pwns! 

But i think Asm is pretty dang powerful it works right down to the Logic level, it loads something in register then sends it through the I/O bus to the display, No other code is like that but there arent any Asm compilers that i could find for a PC. Any suggestion?

Cobol= COmmon Business Oriented Language (or something)

FORTRAN= FORmula TRANslator

besides, FORTRAN was also used on punch cards as well. I don't think COBOL ever was.


Your having problems finding an ASM "compiler" because such a thing doesn't exist. it's called an assembler. And actually ALL code is at some point turned into machine language, and so does the same type of input/output as ASM does. ASM is just a characterized representation of machine code.

and from what I could find on the 'net, ASM either as a Java derivative, or ASM as an Oracle function.

WHA? ASM as a java derivative? I hope that was a joke, because I am now hopelessly confused. I could swear it means assembly language...


And let's clear up something about the BASIC languages, Visual Basic .NET doesn't count. if you use Visual Basic .net, you're not using BASIC, the last Visual Basic that ever existed was Visual Basic 6, and then Microsoft bastardized it by... um... adding all the features we asked for almost... but that isn't the point! the point is, they vastly changed everything, keywords that have been left in Visual Basic almost as a testament to it's predecessors were violently ripped from their roosts... but back on topic....


I used to program in QuickBasic (not QBASIC, gross), but I can no longer stand it. Ever since I started using Class modules extensively I have "rediscovered" programming, so to speak.


I don't know what this "Just BASIC" program is, but I'm guessing it's just a crappier version of FreeBASIC?

[Aegis]

I searched the 'net for asm and got this mess.

I do see one reference, further down, for assembly language.  I looked a little closer at the Java references, and one talks about manipulating bytecodes.  Perhaps that is a reference to assembly language...hey, the poll says Asm.  No capitals...is it an acronym?  Wasn't sure what to think, so I searched asm, and got the previously mentioned results.  If assembly language was meant, then it ought have been specified.  I found more references to Oracle than Java when I searched.

I threw in FORTRAN in my prior post as a salute to an oldie-but-goody.  What about Perl, Python, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails?
Just some more examples...

[!~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~!]

Hey wait doesnt Runescape run on Java?

[Bones92]

Hey wait doesnt Runescape run on Java?

This doesn't benefit Java in any way shape or form...

[reaper_tbs]

Hate to burst your bubble, macdad.
But i believe you mean "Preferred"?
Unless i'm mistaken, in which case, i'm thoroughly confused..

And..

Hey wait doesnt Runescape run on Java?

This doesn't benefit Java in any way shape or form...

I agree.

Edit: I accidentally typed Calum instead of macdad.