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What is your favourtive Programming lanuage?

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C
9.30% (4)
C++
41.86% (18)
C#
2.33% (1)
Perl
2.33% (1)
LISP
0.00% (0)
Fortran
4.65% (2)
BASIC
9.30% (4)
Python
6.98% (3)
Other...
23.26% (10)
43 votes cast

old Re: What is your favourite programming language?

DannyDeth
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CJ7 has written
Don't understand why people vote for BASIC. The language is so basic, you can't do shit with it. I'd rather program in assembly with support for macro's. (NASM)

I know how you feel, the only thing BASIC is useful for is programming calculators, so im sure that's why the people like t

But i seriously want to know the people that like FORTRAN, coz i don't really like it much, it's so crazy with mjathematics. But it is also useful for programming calculators lolz

EDIT: Oh yeah, and why no love fr the LISP, it's so awesome! I don't know how there isn't anybody who has seen this thread and voted for it, so whacked coz it's damn useful, a tad complex, but really useful.

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Globetrotter has written
•Speed
•Full control
•Everything possible

C, that is ur fav language then,i mean seriously try it and like get a degree in it at uni and you will see how awesomely useful it is.

Intrusion has written
I dont;t know what is it but i use c++ ;d
How can you not have a favourite language? Whichn one do you use the most, that is probably it.

Satanic666 has written
does LUA count?

Ok, thre are too things i need to lecture you on here. Lua, not LUA, Lua is a word, thatr emans moon or something. Next. No Lua is a scripting language, it is embeded into a host program to control it easier. So therefore you cannot actually write a program in Lua, only extened a program with Lua. ( PS im sorry if i write stragnfe thoings, i have rubber glvoes on, and they make it extrewmly hard to type [ rats, need to give them medicine for a mite in their ears ] )

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CJ7
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DannyDeth has written
Globetrotter has written
•Speed
•Full control
•Everything possible

C, that is ur fav language then,i mean seriously try it and like get a degree in it at uni and you will see how awesomely useful it is.

Intrusion has written
I dont;t know what is it but i use c++ ;d
How can you not have a favourite language? Whichn one do you use the most, that is probably it.

Satanic666 has written
does LUA count?

Ok, thre are too things i need to lecture you on here. Lua, not LUA, Lua is a word, thatr emans moon or something. Next. No Lua is a scripting language, it is embeded into a host program to control it easier. So therefore you cannot actually write a program in Lua, only extened a program with Lua. ( PS im sorry if i write stragnfe thoings, i have rubber glvoes on, and they make it extrewmly hard to type [ rats, need to give them medicine for a mite in their ears ] )


C++ is even better for that.
You can actually create classes, have templates etc.

Also, the difference between a programming language and a scripting language isn't very clear as Lee stated.

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A Mad Bro
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DannyDeth has written
Satanic666 has written
does LUA count?

Ok, thre are too things i need to lecture you on here. Lua, not LUA, Lua is a word, thatr emans moon or something. Next. No Lua is a scripting language, it is embeded into a host program to control it easier. So therefore you cannot actually write a program in Lua, only extened a program with Lua. ( PS im sorry if i write stragnfe thoings, i have rubber glvoes on, and they make it extrewmly hard to type [ rats, need to give them medicine for a mite in their ears ] )


1. Satan666, not Satanic666

and thanks for the information but a simple "no" would have been enough

old Re: What is your favourite programming language?

Lee
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@DannyDeth:
I hope this doesn't come off as offensive, but I need to clarify a few things regarding whether Lua can be considered to be a programming language.

If we define a programming language as a language that can be compiled into native machine instruction so that its output can run natively on the OS, then the following implications arise:

http://unrealsoftware.de/forum_posts.php?post=197378&start=20#post198600

Which can be condensed into the following statement:

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In the end, the distinction only goes as far as that between interpreted and compiled implementations. In fact, if we can accept the premise that virtual computational machines are logically equivalent on all abstraction levels in context of the ability to do primitive operations, then we can contend that all languages are programming languages, albeit some may be more of a programming language than others.


Note that when programming language is used as a descriptive noun rather than an object, it refers to the definition above. The logic follows that if a subset of the set of all computational machines can be virtualized, then every element of the set of computational machines is in fact an element of it itself. Hence we can abstract something on as high of a level as an instruction language into a virtualized-virtual computer and hence establish an equivalence with all computational machines. (It is therefore a programming language even if its current implementation does not conform to the definition of a programming language).

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archmage
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LOLCODE (not my fav just mentioning)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE

-- This examples are from wiki
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HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
   UP VAR!!1
   IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHX
   VISIBLE VAR
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

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HAI
 CAN HAS STDIO?
 PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
     AWSUM THX
         VISIBLE FILE
     O NOES
         INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
 KTHXBYE

old Re: What is your favourite programming language?

DannyDeth
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@Lee:

Yes, i see ur point ( and no i did not mean my explaination to be ofensive, i hope it didnt apear too offensive ), but the any language could be a programming language, since with a certain compiler, any language can be converted to machine code. Infact there is a Lua compiler, but it compiles Lua into bytecode for smaller files, not into a stanard executable. Thre are compilers that can do it, but it is not what Lua is designed for. Same as Java, it can be compiled into an executable, but it isn't a dedicated prrgramming language. And like you said Java is usually run by the JavaVM, infact i dont know why i put java into the list becase its confusing people now. So there really isn't an anwser to this whole thing with the programming language thingy. I think lets stick to dedicated programming languages, or languages that have programming listed before scripting usage. What is strange is that i think python is a little like Java, but a little more simple since it is normall distrobuted in source, adn run my the interpreter. I have yet to find a Python compiler, that comples the code into and executable, for an OS.

EDIT: @Dark Byte:

Are you LOLCatz in CS2D?
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