View Poll Results: What's the best programming language?

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  • Visual Basic: obviously

    3 15.79%

  • C++: fast, strong, and solid

    10 52.63%

  • Java: cross-platform heaven

    0 0%

  • Perl: I'm the only person who uses it professionally

    2 10.53%

  • TI-BASIC: The language of TI's graphing calculators

    1 5.26%

  • Programming language? What's that?

    3 15.79%
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Thread: SOUND OFF: Best programming language

  1. Jul 18th, 2001, 12:45 PM #1
    filburt1
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    SOUND OFF: Best programming language

    Any comments about why you chose what you did?
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  2. Jul 18th, 2001, 12:48 PM #2
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    C++
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  3. Jul 18th, 2001, 12:55 PM #3
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    Honestly, it depends on what you need to do. I would probably say that Java or C++ is your best bet most of the time. I would also say that since I can find practical times to use TI's BASIC, it would rank above VB.

    I voted for Perl since it is by far the most fun to program in. After all, Perl is Poetry, and you don't code Perl, so much as compose it.
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  4. Jul 18th, 2001, 01:06 PM #4
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    you don't code Perl, so much as compose it.
    But it's awfully hard to dance to!
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  6. Jul 18th, 2001, 01:10 PM #5
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    I voted for perl because it's the most fun to use. I don't really know why. I don't even know it very well, but it is my favorite anyway.
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  7. Jul 18th, 2001, 01:14 PM #6
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    Originally posted by barrk


    But it's awfully hard to dance to!
    That's why we have Lious Armstrong, Jimmy Durante, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington....

    If they were programmers, I think they would like Perl.
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  8. Jul 18th, 2001, 03:37 PM #7
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    The thing about C and C++ is that they're actually cross platform on the source level, as opposed to just having different implementations of the language

    I love the way you can take a huge project and just recompile it with only a few changes.

    Plus it's fast, solid, and you get inline asm
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  9. Jul 18th, 2001, 03:39 PM #8
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    http://pub.alxnet.com/poll?id=2028601&q=view
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  11. Jul 18th, 2001, 03:41 PM #9
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    Not true! Not all C and C++ code is cross-platform on the source level! You can do some Unix stuff in C that you can't in Win32.
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  12. Jul 18th, 2001, 03:45 PM #10
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    Yeah, but if you stick to the standard library functions most of the time you're okay. Plus, there are indirection libraries for graphics (opengl), sound (openal), threading (pthreads), windowing (fltk) and loads more for C and C++.
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  13. Jul 19th, 2001, 04:09 AM #11
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    Only one vote for VB????

    Look, if you have to create a comparison of figures from various sources for an overtly aggressive manger by the end of the day, VB becomes a truly beautiful language.

    Mrs Thug is right, it depends on what you need to do. Which kind of makes this thread title inappropriate. How about "What language do you enjoy programming in?"
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