Comments on: QotD: Language

By: Samuel Tesla

Samuel Tesla — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:51:13 +0000

For non-garbage-collected languages, I definitely prefer Objective-C. But I still greatly prefer GC.

Ruby and SmallTalk are pretty much tied for my favorite with Lisp right behind them.

By: Carey Barzeski

Carey Barzeski — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:09:17 +0000

Visual Basic because it's the only one that I "know"

By: dda

dda — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:06:18 +0000

REALBasic for GUI apps [x-plat Mac/Win/Linux]. Hard to beat RB on RAD for GUI apps.

Python for console apps. Subtle and efficient.

PHP for Web apps.

By: Marcus S. Zarra

Marcus S. Zarra — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:57:50 +0000

Objective-C because developing GUI applications with Cocoa is like dancing.

My second would be Java for server-side code.

By: Ludovic

Ludovic — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:48:21 +0000

6502 Assembly, because it's one of the first I learned.

Perl : readable, hackable, c like.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:08:09 +0000

Python. Elegant and powerful.

And if you were to ask what is my favorite GUI framework, I'd have to say I've never seen anything as sophisticated as Cocoa. If I were to write an application with complex back-end logic (something other than a simple GUI front-end to a data store of some sort), I'd implement the business logic/model layer in Python, and then bridge that to a Cocoa front-end written with Objective-C.

By: ron

ron — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:45:16 +0000

right now it's c# (because that's what i work with most at work), but there are plenty of problems with it. other than that it's ruby.

By: Ryan Littlefield

Ryan Littlefield — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:23:22 +0000

I feel python should be represented. Aside from a few weird points, it's pretty easy to pick up. Writing it is fun, and its fairly straight forward to read.

By: Joern

Joern — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:01:58 +0000

1. Perl

2. Objective-C

3. JavaScript

Joern.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:01:25 +0000

Depends on the context. I like:

HyperTalk, because it's how I learned to program when I was a kid;

Perl when I need a quick hack;

Objective-C for serious programming;

Java when I need cross-platform.

I don't like:

C++. I once thought the STL would allow me to do what I do with NSArray in Objective-C and Vector in Java. Apparently not so;

AppleScript, the syntax is too wretched;

PHP. Next project I will try Ruby.