Thread: What is your favorite language other than C/C++ and why?

From a nostalgic point of view, "Just Basic", because it was the first language I messed with.
Prolog is awesome, in it own, unique way.
Brainf..k, nuff said!...

Russian, since I can understand 99% of things told in it

Originally Posted by vart

Russian, since I can understand 99% of things told in it

Oh, not 日本語 ?

EDIT: My bad, I firstly read "can't"

I really want to learn russian and klingon.

for computer languages, C++ is my clear favorite, but I also really enjoy go and python.

Fortran (90 and later) by far. The real benefit from Fortran is the ability to do whole array operations with one line.

Code:

a = 5*b + c

where a, b, c could be huge multidimensional arrays. You can also do neat stuff like this:

Code:

WHERE (a /= 0.0)
     a = 1.0/a
ELSEWHERE
     a = HUGE(a)
END WHERE

which makes 2 partial array assignments. Some of the spoils of C++ are somewhat present, such as:

Code:

PRINT *, a_str, a_int, a_float, a_bool
a_str = 'some text'//a_str//'some more text'//another_str

(printing to places without worrying about type, like streaming to stdout, and built-in string operations)

Edit: disregard the formatting of the code block, // is Fortran's concatenate operator

I've been enjoying writing Octave code lately.

My favorite language of the past was Basic09; but, I have not used in in years.
It was the first real programming language I did much programming in.
Ran under Microwave OS9 on the Radio Shack Color Computer.

I often think of writing a translator or emulator for it.

Basic09 was Basic crossed with Pascal.

Tim S.

C# has been my love for the past few years... despite not being able to separate declarations from definitions.

VB is my fave language, because I can create Windows apps quickly and don't require extensive language-oriented knowledge.

EDIT: I did learn C a while back, and enjoyed it immensely, but had very little use for it in my life(since I can't do Windows programming), so switched to VB.

Originally Posted by Yarin

There is this little thing called the WinAPI.

C + WinAPI < VB.NET

Originally Posted by cfanatic

C + WinAPI < VB.NET

perhaps in terms of programmer productivity for general windows apps, but try interfacing with an external native library, and you'll see where it's inadequate.