Your Most Favourite Computer Language

kilz

Sep 5 2004, 05:15 AM

what do you think??

kilz

Sep 5 2004, 05:21 AM

I know php only, but I'd like to learn C/C++ next time.

mastercomputers

Sep 5 2004, 10:24 AM

I would like to vote, but there really isn't a 'best' language, it would be biased if I voted as I prefer certain languages as personal preferences and not because it's the best designed language.

What should be said is why so and so language is considered good, I believe every language has their purposes and the developers had that in mind too, they were even developed to do similar things that other languages did as well as having improvements.

Now I am against some languages, it's kind of like Windows VS. Linux, Windows was made with ease of use in mind while Linux was considered a ground for developers/programmers, there probably wasn't a consideration of other users at that time till recently.

That's the same I have against other languages, they have languages that people can develop small to large scale products without knowing much in the programming side, it also helped people develop viruses and trojans much easier, although I do believe these people do have knowledge but they lack the programming side of things (don't quote me on that). Another thing that I don't like is how programs aren't easily portable to other OS, this was purposely designed into those programs by someone I'll just call a GIANT, but that doesn't mean it can't be ported, it does however mean you'd spend quite a while trying to figure it out.

ASM, C/C++ would be my choice of language no matter what, I've looked at C# and D Language and still haven't convinced me that I should change, they've addressed known problems but they have taken away some control and I like having full control, even if this opens up potential exploits, at least it'll keep me on my feet.

In the dynamic web developing, it'll have to be PHP, because I know Perl and C, this language was easy for me to pick up and it has a lot of well thought out things and it's constantly getting better (and bigger in size).

So even if a 'best' language was chosen, it'd be nice to see feedback of why you chose that language. For my choice, it's being in control of every single bit and byte.

Cheers, MC

jcguy

Sep 5 2004, 11:49 AM

I'm quite confused about programming languages. My friend told me that you can make web pages with C++, but I thought that there is only one programming langauge for web pages: HTML? I know that languages like C++ are using for writing programs, but can they be used too for web pages?

Hercco

Sep 5 2004, 06:58 PM

QUOTE(jcguy @ Sep 5 2004, 01:49 PM)

Well webpages are made using a markup languages, which aren't programming languages. Basically for webpages the markup language is either HTML or XML.

What server side scripting languages like PHP or ASP do is just output markup languge. For example the PHP script creating these forum pages fetch the data of our posts from a database, processes it and prints out HTML.

C or C++ can be just aswell used for the same task as server side scipting languages. There just needs to be compiled programs on the server and server set to allow execution of these programs when a webpage is requested. Similarly th programs outputs HTML (or wahtever) which is sent to user and viewed in his browser.

xavierduan

Sep 6 2004, 05:11 AM

we will get different result in different standard
it is not suitable to compare these coding languages
i think php is the best and c# is the best too

kilz

Sep 6 2004, 11:10 AM

QUOTE(xavierduan @ Sep 6 2004, 05:11 AM)

we will get different result in different standard
it is not suitable to compare these coding languages
i think php is the best and c# is the best too

PHP is easy, but C# is not.
some1 say dat C is a top level language. . .and php is basic.

because php has lots of build in function.??

wappi

Sep 6 2004, 11:34 AM

i think php an c are different things. In C you can do many usefull programs and whith php you can do dynamic internet pages.

Hercco

Sep 6 2004, 01:57 PM

Yes. With C you can do practically anything, while PHP is suitable for only certain tasks. Also the performance levels of these two languages or , to be accurate, programs created with these languages are far from each other. C programs naturally being faster being relatively low level and compiled.

imarunnre

Sep 6 2004, 09:28 PM

QUOTE(Hercco @ Sep 6 2004, 01:57 PM)

Python is really easy to learn.

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Snake

Jun 17 2008, 12:34 AM

C and C++.

C and C++ are the most powerful languages.

C makes most operating systems, and C++ makes most elegant programs.
C++ is better than C in my opinion, but they both rule.

I started programming C++ and it's actually more easier then it sounds.
It just needs some practice. C With Classes For The Win!!!

DrK3055A

Oct 22 2006, 01:24 AM

I think C++ is well suited for most of applications. Java is open/platform, but is an "emulated" language, you need a virtual machine in order to run the code, so it doesn't make much difference with an interpreted language.

C++ can compile to native machine code that run fast, and can be used for task that are suited for other languages. For instance, i compiled CGI programs writen in c for server side execution (for very fast runtime) compared to those writen in php (similar sintax, but interpreted by an engine).

Arbitrary

Jul 19 2006, 09:33 PM

Yep, there isn't a best programming language. Never will be. Language wars kind of scare me, and remind me of certain other "fandoms" that I'd rather leave in the dust.

Each language has their own uses. No language can take over all other languages, except for in a small sector of life.

Anyways, I have to go with a lot of people here that PHP is truly very easy. It took me very little time to learn it. Apparently I accredited this to previous experience with Java, but that seems to not be the case, as everyone procclaims PHP is easy. Precisely because of this ease, it happens to be my favorite. But favorites don't mean much; it's not as if my favorite is the best of the best. It's not. Javascript is useful too, but I just didn't find it as easy as PHP.

Java and C++ were fun, but well, they're not that easy. I'm just one of those lazy folk that prefer easy languages, so...well, that's that.

Emerald Green

Jul 19 2006, 01:52 PM

Like everyone else has said, there's no such thing as a "best" programming language. Every language has its own strengths and weaknesses.

I've used BASIC (first Atari BASIC - that was how I started programming - then Visual Basic), VBscript for ASP, and PHP. I've also dabbled in Java and C/C++.

Obviously, Java and C/C++ are more powerful languages. But, going on the ratio of ease-of-learning to power, I'd have to say my favourite is definitely PHP. I learnt it in a snap. I was particularly impressed with how easy it was to connect to a database through PHP. I spent hours trying to manage it with ASP (it probably would have been a lot easier if I'd had MS Access, but I didn't - I was left struggling with ODBC). But when I tried to do the same thing in PHP, it just worked! That sure gave it the wow factor for me. Of course, building your GUI in HTML makes things a lot easier. And PHP can do a lot. It does everything I want it to. What more can you ask?

But I'm not going to be running around proclaiming PHP as the One True Language to which thou all shalt switch. It's a scripting language. And although it's made some slight movements towards becoming a "real" programming language, it will never do the sort of stuff that C/C++ can. That's why I'm learning C++ now.

WRM

Jan 6 2006, 04:39 AM

My favorite is PHP because it's easy to learn/program in and it's very vaste in it's abilities. I've learned how to program in PHP, Perl, C++, C, Python, and JavaScript, and after learning the bunch I desided PHP is my fav. Perl and Python are pretty easy, but I'm not fond of CGI languages and C++ and Java are nice, but are kind of hard expecially GUI. JavaScript is probably my second favorite, but it doesn't have the same abilities of PHP mostly because it's client-side and not server-side.

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