What's your favorite programming language?

[WillyBrandt]

I'm a big fan of LISP and C#.

I've got to say, I'm impressed as hell with .NET. Maybe it's Microsoft ripoff of Java, but it's great.

[Gato Moteado]

1. my newest favorite languages are...

python and php

[mvd]

2. Perl

It's C made a little simpler. ;-)

[tridim]

4. I'm a perl fan too

Call me old skool I guess. Although PHP is catching my eye lately.

The coolest, easiest and funnest language is Blitz Basic 3D. It's a very fast, compilable basic language for writing games. Anyone can write a first person shooter in about 2 hours with it.

[gristy]

6. awk

It's like perl, but a LOT simpler. A great language. I hardly need to crack the reference manual any more.

[gonefishing]

3. I got married at an early age with Mainframe Assembler.

They say you never forget your first love. Over the years I have flirted with rexx. I had a short fling with C. I think I am over my mid-life crisis with Javascript and I am now settling down in my older age with Perl.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

5. Perl

although you could say my favorite is whichever one someone will pay me to use.

[Kellanved]

7. depends, but I like Object Teams a lot. (AOP)

A new aspect oriented Java dialect, with promise regarding Software Development. Caesar and AspectJ are pretty cool as well.

So, there lists:

Overall:
#1 Prolog
#2 Object Teams (http://www.objectteams.org)
#3 Eiffel
#4 Java
#5 C++

Academic:
#1 Prolog
#2 Object Teams
#3 Eiffel
#4 Caesar (http://www.caesarj.org)
#5 OPAL
(Edit: honorable mention: Brainfuck)

"Real":
#1 Java
#2 C++
#3 .net (C#)
#4 Smalltalk
#5 Matlab (not really a programming language, but very useful for the occasional math problem).

[WillyBrandt]

9. You like C++ more than C#?

C++ is too much work! :)

[Kellanved]

13. yes

In C++ you can do all sorts of stunts - sometimes I just like freedom.
And my work with C++ (and C for that matter) is mostly parallel programming with MPI on heavy-duty number-crunchers - C# can't do that.

[oostevo]

8. Java

But I find myself going back to C++ more and more nowadays, for speed reasons. Perhaps I should just play around with native code in Java.

[bleedingheart]

10. My first real computer language was FORTRAN and as another

poster mentioned ...its hard to forget your first.

I have used PASCAL, C, VB and have dabbled in scripting of sorts...

Don't really have a favorite..

[DS1]

11. There's an elegance to JAVA but now it's PHP

Open Source fucking r0XX0rz /l33t

[Dogmudgeon]

12. Visual Basic

There are now several "dialects" that aren't under the control of Microsoft; OpenOffice uses one that's about 95% complete AND has many enhancements.

Since I'm no longer making a living writing VB code for MSOffice, I've been looking at other languages, and will probably learn C++ next, at the very least to code super-fast componants for use within a VB or VB-like environment.

Of course, once I'm a world-famous rock star, all that kid stuff stops. :)

--bkl

[bleedingheart]

14. VBA is also cool (subset of VB)

our company integrated it with our application and it has boosted profits and makes our tool more friendly to the outside world.

[Dogmudgeon]

16. A valid observation

Because from personal experience, I know that when you make your tool more friendly to the outside world, integrating your application goes much more smoothly, from the mixed-protocol handshake all the way to real-time process-space sharing with unconstrained child processes.

:)

--bkl
And I never knew a broadband modem could groan, either.

[analogman]

15. Write in C (with apologies to Lennon/McCartney)

WRITE IN C
(sung to The Beatles "Let it Be")

When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Write in C."

As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers"
"Write in C."

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, write in C.
LISP is dead and buried,
Write in C.

I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
for science it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for graphics!
Write in C.

If you've just spent nearly 30 hours
Debugging some assembly,
Soon you will be glad to
Write in C.

Write in C, write in C,
Write In C, yeah, write in C.
Only wimps use BASIC.
Write in C.

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, oh, write in C.
Pascal won't quite cut it.
Write in C.

Guitar Solo

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, yeah, write in C.
Don't even mention COBOL.
Write in C.

And when the screen is fuzzy,
And the edior is bugging me.
I'm sick of ones and zeroes.
Write in C.

A thousand people people swear that T.P.
Seven is the one for me.
I hate the word PROCEDURE,
Write in C.

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, yeah, write in C.
PL1 is 80's,
Write in C.

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, yeah, write in C.
The government loves ADA,
Write in C.

[sir_captain]

17. LOGO

'nuff said

[TrogL]

18. C or Perl

Depends on what I'm trying to do and how fast I need deliverables.

I'm doing a lot of work in C right now.