Thread: Your "favorite" languge

I really like working in C#, because you can do so much in such a small amount of code. The .Net framework has nearly everything you need already implemented. There is no hand-coding of boilerplate. It is also very easy to learn if you already know C++.

That said, I would say that C++ is my preferred language. it is expressive, powerful, and flexible. Most compilers warn you if you're doing something stupid or reckless, but you can still do these things if you know what you're doing.

1. C++
2. C#
3. Lua

Why C of course.

In my relatively short tenure, I would say C++.

btw....I recently looked at D . It has the potential to become a favourite, but something about it "feels" odd.

Originally Posted by manasij7479

I recently looked at D . It has the potential to become a favourite, but something about it "feels" odd.

I looked at D also, but like you said, something feels odd about it. I also have recently been looking at the go programming language, developed by google. it looks very interesting, and appears to have a full set of standard libraries, as well as many of the features that I wish C++ had (but also missing a few, like overloaded functions). my research into go is ongoing (pun intended), but it looks very promising.

Originally Posted by manasij7479

In my relatively short tenure, I would say C++.

btw....I recently looked at D . It has the potential to become a favourite, but something about it "feels" odd.

Though last winter and this spring I looked very closely at D. In my opinion the language concept is absolutely brilliant but there were two horrific mistakes made...

1) Instead of importing Windows libraries and headers they decided to use an incompatible construct that, while theoretically better, has resulted in there never being a proper implementation of Windows for D.

2) They opened the D functions library for open source development and as a result it's a poorly written standard library with a bunch of junk functions most people wouldn't use in the next 30 years.

Absent either one of these two problems, I'd be a D programmer right now.
I did write a few smaller programs in it and they worked fine. I found it easy enough to understand. But even though the base compiler is very well thought out it's been surrounded by trash... And I ain't sticking my hand in there to see what I can pull out.

I haven't seen any goddesses hanging around, but Google's new language, Go, is very intriguing. Two of it's creators are Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. Ken is a Unix veteran, who wrote the B programming language. Pike worked with Plan9 OS, the Limbo language, etc.

Any language that Ken Thompson is working on with the resources of Google behind him, is definitely worth checking out, imo. He's brilliant.

Right now, Go is moving forward nicely. Lots of input from a community of Go'ers, is a big help. It's meant as a systems and general language, but it has automatic garbage collection, nice multi-threading/communication, and basic OOP, as well. It is a compiled language, but compiles many times faster than C, and runs about 70% of C's speed, in the language benchmark tests. It has several features, like range and such, that make programming more intuitive, but they've kept that minimalistic feel to it, as well.