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15 Responses to "QotD: Language"

1. | Reply Tim Buchheim
   Posted 09 Aug 2005 at 10:14pm #
   

   Definitely Objective-C for any serious programming. No contest.

   Perl is great for quick stuff, and any text processing of course.

2. | Reply mike3k
   Posted 09 Aug 2005 at 10:39pm #
   

   C++ because it has less runtime overhead than Objective C, although I'm starting to fall in love with Cocoa.

3. | Reply Jared White
   Posted 09 Aug 2005 at 11:42pm #
   

   PHP for me, although that might be deemed by some to be a scripting language rather than full-blow programming language (though I think such distinctions are mostly moot). In terms of desktop apps, Objective-C + Cocoa wins hands down over anything else I've tried.

   Jared

4. | Reply Jerry Nummi
   Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 1:42am #
   

   JavaScript. No joke. It's a blast writing JS. Although... Ruby is quickly working its way up the list.

5. | Reply Ralph Scheuer
   Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 2:48am #
   

   ObjectiveC for the desktop, Java for server stuff, PHP for simple server stuff where MySQL is the appropriate database, Perl for the fact that being able to read your code again after a year without touching it is for wimps, AppleScript Studio for a quick hack, AppleScript for automation, VisualBasic.NET for reading MS-provided example code and translating it to Java

6. | Reply Olivier
   Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 4:01am #
   

   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.

7. | Reply Joern
   Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 4:01am #
   

   1. Perl

   2. Objective-C

   3. JavaScript

   🙂

   Joern.

8. | Reply Ryan Littlefield
   Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 5:23am #
   

   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.

9. | Reply ron
   Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 7:45am #
   

   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.

10. | Reply Erik
    Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 9:08am #
    

    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.

11. | Reply Ludovic
    Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 9:48am #
    

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

    Perl : readable, hackable, c like.

12. | Reply Marcus S. Zarra
    Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 10:57am #
    

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

    My second would be Java for server-side code.

13. | Reply dda
    Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 4:06pm #
    

    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.

14. | Reply Carey Barzeski
    Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 6:09pm #
    

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

15. | Reply Samuel Tesla
    Posted 10 Aug 2005 at 7:51pm #
    

    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.