[Coders] Favorite Language

[somnia]

My lovely swiss army knife: Python

[Truth]

C++

Python is cool too though prolly favorite scripting language I suppose

[SamwiseRed]

umm im a wannabe but i can do more with python than anything. would really like to get into coding one of these years :D

[Diggles]

o u no C++

someone refer to LUA as a programming language and ima stab u

[quido]

C++ all the way!

[Truth]

People always like "omg omg Lua so much better for embedding [in C/etc.] than Python"

having done both they are literally the same, easy but dum. Python better tho overall imqo

Lua claims advantage with "lightweight footprint", aka doesn't have as many libs avail as Python. Python isn't that big either, under a couple megs. Performance-wise Python a lot faster at simple stuff but falls behind with binary trees and such (kinda makes sense, since Lua only has table data type like LISP lists).

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python3&lang2=lua

[Diggles]

I used Lua a lot for wow modding, that was about it.

[somnia]

It's often unavoidable to use the ubiquitous C/C++ but I don't like using lower-level languages and prefer not to if I can avoid it. If speed is a major issue then obviously my go-to-guy but otherwise I'd rather not submit myself to unnecessary pain.

Lua huh? I've heard of it but have never programmed in it.

[Truth]

I used to hate strongly typed but now I dislike the dynamic way. So all I use p much is C++ even for simple shit (besides web obv, mostly PHP there). It's really not that bad with libraries like Boost and Qt, you can do all the stuff that's standard in a scripting language pretty easy. It'll obviously be a few more lines but is what feels comfortable to me. One thing I dislike about Python is theres no good free* editor (at least that I've found) that has a decently working autocomplete.

C sux I hate dealin w/ c strings no classes so a buncha struct functions etc. C is the #1 most widely used (obviously since is in like every driver and operating system), followed by Java (kinda a surprise to me there). I don't like Java at all, if you couldn't tell, even though it has more support than C#.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

Prolog is a pretty cool language, logical programming or w/e. In school seen it do lots of stuff no other language can do (except maybe LISP idk). Ada can do some pretty neat shit too I have no clue how to replicate in like C++.

After awhile they all just blend together, pickin up a new one's syntax and stdlib like ridin a bike.

[quido]

Java sucks. I enjoy Assembly programming though I haven't done nearly as much of it as I have C/C++. It was fun trying out Assembly on a SPARC architecture!

[somnia]

I used to hate strongly typed but now I dislike the dynamic way. So all I use p much is C++ even for simple shit (besides web obv, mostly PHP there). It's really not that bad with libraries like Boost and Qt, you can do all the stuff that's standard in a scripting language pretty easy. It'll obviously be a few more lines but is what feels comfortable to me. One thing I dislike about Python is theres no good free* editor (at least that I've found) that has a decently working autocomplete.

C sux I hate dealin w/ c strings no classes so a buncha struct functions etc. C is the #1 most widely used (obviously since is in like every driver and operating system), followed by Java (kinda a surprise to me there). I don't like Java at all, if you couldn't tell, even though it has more support than C#.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

Prolog is a pretty cool language, logical programming or w/e. In school seen it do lots of stuff no other language can do (except maybe LISP idk). Ada can do some pretty neat shit too I have no clue how to replicate in like C++.

After awhile they all just blend together, pickin up a new one's syntax and stdlib like ridin a bike.

It's true there's no good free IDE for Python. I've been using PyCharm which will run you $99 (1 year of free updates too) but is truly worth every penny. I encountered this IDE while doing some work in a web start-up using the Django framework and was hooked.

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

While it's true they all tend to blend together over time, different syntactical sugar taste different so while one should always pick the best tool for the job there's still, assuming overprogramming hasn't turned you into a robot, preferences and likes/dislikes of languages.

[somnia]

Java sucks. I enjoy Assembly programming though I haven't done nearly as much of it as I have C/C++. It was fun trying out Assembly on a SPARC architecture!

Never understood people who actually enjoy assembly programming. I haven't muddied those waters past the classroom (by choice).

[Truth]

^tru, very rarely but have had to use __asm a few times 2 wutdo thangs.

One thing I use/d Python a lot for is with a library called BeautifulSoup. Real good for parsing dirty ass html, easier to navigate DOM than with Tidy. Use it for content scrapers etc, fairly common request when I was in college doin shit ass freelance. Qt/WebKit in C++ works pretty good too, can use css selectors and execute javascript on stuff and such. Wrote a general purpose webbot with it that could be scripted in js a couple years ago but no longer have it :[

They still never fix bug I submitted 2 yrs ago to the day

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38450

[Extunarian]

I used to be C++ > Java, but then I got into a department that really understood how to use J2EE and the relevant frameworks to build big reliable enterprise applications. Now I love it. Great mix of productivity/flexibility/scalability. Of course much of this has to do with utilizing the whole java 'stack' and the scope of the project, not just the language.

[mgellan]

Modern: Python, C++
Classic: FORTH
Really Classic: 6502, Z80 assembler

Regards,
Mg

[somnia]

^tru, very rarely but have had to use __asm a few times 2 wutdo thangs.

One thing I use/d Python a lot for is with a library called BeautifulSoup. Real good for parsing dirty ass html, easier to navigate DOM than with Tidy. Use it for content scrapers etc, fairly common request when I was in college doin shit ass freelance. Qt/WebKit in C++ works pretty good too, can use css selectors and execute javascript on stuff and such. Wrote a general purpose webbot with it that could be scripted in js a couple years ago but no longer have it :[

They still never fix bug I submitted 2 yrs ago to the day

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38450


BeautifulSoup is great albeit a little slow.

[Visual]

Swahili