What's Your Faviourite Programming Language?

[Priok]

the one I know the most about is PYTHON, the first one that i was learning is LOGO. I don't know that much about that one though, and I don't program anymore so it is not a done deal going on

Why did you capitalise the whole word? It's Python, not PYTHON.
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to make you respond to me, Rakiru

[rakiru]

the one I know the most about is PYTHON, the first one that i was learning is LOGO. I don't know that much about that one though, and I don't program anymore so it is not a done deal going on

Why did you capitalise the whole word? It's Python, not PYTHON.
[/pedantic]

to make you respond to me, Rakiru

Wow, so rude.

[Priok]

ok sorry

[learn_more]

(I can't think of any problems with C right now)

It's a pain in the butt to port your code to other platforms/compilers.

then you are doing it wrong.



c/c++ for low-level stuff
c# for ui stuff / tools
python for scripts / tooling aswell.

[VladVP]

EDIT: So close to 200 posts!

[DrDeuce]

Wow, you've been in a really bad mood today

Actually, no, I haven't. Also, that's a pretty mild post compared to some of my other ones.

Lol, I'll take your word for it

[rakiru]

http://i.qkme.me/3tw66y.jpg

I loled, you win. xD

[danhezee]

whitespace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace ... _language)

[VladVP]

whitespace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace ... _language)

Do esoteric languages count? :o

[HoboHob]

-snip-

Is not AMD64 machine code the same as Intel x64 machine code. And if you say Machine Code people assume you're talking about Intel. So you could have just said Machine Code.

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.

[ThisFrickinSite]

I enjoy me some Lua.

[VladVP]

-snip-

Is not AMD64 machine code the same as Intel x64 machine code. And if you say Machine Code people assume you're talking about Intel. So you could have just said Machine Code.

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.

How many years did they spend on educating you? Because both of your statements there would immediately burst any dataologist into laughter.

[rakiru]

Is not AMD64 machine code the same as Intel x64 machine code. And if you say Machine Code people assume you're talking about Intel. So you could have just said Machine Code.

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.

Indeed you are wrong. I wouldn't have minded if you'd just asked about it, but your post assumes that you are correct, then states that you may be wrong. Research before posting next time, or just ask about stuff you're not sure of.

The x86-64 instruction set was made by AMD, and is also used by Intel (there may be extensions to it, but they fully support the AMD instruction set).

Edit: Also, I would not assume that anyone who says "machine code" is talking about Intel. I wouldn't even assume they were talking about x86 or x86-64, unless it was in a discussion about Windows. People could easily be using that term for other processors, such as ARM, etc..

[HoboHob]

The x86-64 instruction set was made by AMD, and is also used by Intel (there may be extensions to it, but they fully support the AMD instruction set).

My life is a lie.

[GreaseMonkey]

For me, either C or Python - Python for quick hackjobs usually, and C for when either 1: speed matters, or 2: I want graphical output, in which case I pair it with SDL + OpenGL.
Oh yeah, I'll also quite happily use Lua for a scripting language, it's nice and flexible and has a fairly simple C API.
Occasionally I will code in assembler, and not just x86 stuff (I've done some decent stuff with x86 (16-bit real mode + 32-bit protected mode), Z80, 6502, 68000).
I suspect the first language I ever used was JavaScript, although I tend to say I really started out on QBASIC. I haven't touched JavaScript in a while. FreeBASIC (a QBASIC clone + fork) is actually pretty fast (1000FPS mode 13h gridcaster anyone?), and has inline assembler support, but I don't use it often.

I have made a .mod player in GNU Smalltalk before.
The first functional programming language I used was Scheme, which I also tried to make a player for... unfortunately, the timing is dreadful.

I have used Prolog on the odd occasion to solve problems.
On that note, fuck Alloy.
I don't like Haskell. It yells at me far too much, and comes up with an awful lot of seemingly weird type collisions.
I'd like to get into Erlang, it looks like a functional variant of Prolog.

Speaking of Erlang, I *just* got it working...

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-module(poop).
-export([sort/1]).

largestToFront([]) -> [];
largestToFront([H|T]) -> largestToFront(T,H,[]).

largestToFront([],X,A) -> [X|A];
largestToFront([H|T],X,A) when H > X -> largestToFront(T,H,[X|A]);
largestToFront([H|T],X,A) when H =< X -> largestToFront(T,X,[H|A]).

sort(L) -> sort(L, []).

sort([],A) -> A;
sort(L,A) ->
        [H|T] = largestToFront(L),
        sort(T,[H|A]).

Yay, selection sort! (Ew. Might try mergesort next.)

There's probably some other non-esoteric languages I've missed.
As for esoteric languages, I quite like Befunge.