favorite programming language?

[roddierod]

Originally Posted by indienick

... I was chatting with a fellow whose language of choice was COBOL...

I have never met anyone who admitted to even like COBOL let alone that being their language of choice!

[indienick]

Shocking, I know.

[TerryP]

Maybe the guy gets paid by the byte of code written? xD


(Lisp programmers seem to be rarer these days )

[TomAmundsen]

I originally voted for Java, that's what I use most often because it is so easy and good at doing a lot of things. Now, Haskell is my favorite. But of course, it's really all about the task at hand.

Java: my goto language for most software projects
Perl: for scripting stuff beyond [12] line bash scripts
C: because it's the only way to do the job sometimes, and I have a secret systems programming fetish
Haskell: the SEXIEST language I've ever met, I wish I could use it more...

[bleakgadfly]

I prefer Lisp (more specifically Scheme in Racket, former PLT), but I also enjoy the syntaxical challenges Erlang gives me. Done a little C work but didn't bother much with it.

Completely hate and disgust Java

[rocket357]

I voted for Python because (for me, at least) it separates the problem from the language really well...i.e. I can focus on the problem and the language doesn't get in my way.

I do quite a bit of shell scripting in my daily work (bash and ksh, mostly), I love C and use it as often as my workload requires, and I find functional languages enlightening and interesting but mostly irrelevant to my needs.

I have literally stopped a job interview and left at the mention of .NET/Java's role in the position I was interviewing for (I wouldn't have shown up if I knew ahead of time that they'd be involved!).

[Randux]

Originally Posted by drhowarddrfine

Everything should be done in assembly language.

It almost always is. It's just that most people don't realize it

Sorry to revive dead threads tonight but came back and saw lots of familiar nicks and wanted to say HELLO to everyone!

[iostreamer]

I just love C. You can do whatever you want. Just name it!

[silex]

Yay Python is second

[PrinceCruise]

As an admin I dealt with Shell scripting so far and intend to master it down the line alongside occasional Perl which I never managed to get a tight hold.
Though I just promised myself that I will relearn to code clean in C like I did in my college days.

Regards.

[gpatrick]

Rexx and NetRexx are my favorite languages.

[Overrider]

For many quick and dirty tasks php proves to be as versatile a tool as perl or python. Just opening a file, splitting lines into individual fields, cleaning up the data and adding it all into a database takes a few minutes max.