Your favorite/most used language

[apollo2011]

Mines Visual Basic and HTML

[BPHgravity]

I prefer the English language.

[apollo2011]

Originally posted by BPHgravity

I prefer the English language.

 

Even the English language has its pitfalls

[blike]

I like VB, but sometimes its hideously slow compared to C / C++. Especially in my pi calculator. The application in C calculates about twice to three times as fast as my visual basic application.

 

Of course, BASIC being the only language I know well, I must say its my favorite language

[Sayonara]

PHPPHPPHP

[JaKiri]

Esperanto, for a more obscure version of the joke that's already been made.

[Sayonara]

Originally posted by blike

Of course, BASIC being the only language I know well, I must say its my favorite language

Mallard Basic on the Amstrad PCW series - best language EVER.

 

[apollo2011]

Ilearned QBASIC from Mallard's BASIC BASIC Tutorial.

 

It was really easy to un derstand and do. I recommend it to anybody who wants to learn.

You can get it at www.qbasic.com and then click on "Tutorials"

[phubuh]

I won't vote, since O'Caml isn't an option.

[ThEmAdHaTtEr]

VB6 all the way. its easy, and you can make pretty much anything from it.

[Guest SyntaXVB5]

My favorite language is C, as C produces high-performance code with high-level behavior. Having access to all of the hardware-related modules is also a plus for me. I recommend Visual Basic if you're doing windows based applications, even though I personally don't like it's high-level handling.

[rdjon]

It all depends on what I'm doing...

 

For scientific code that runs through huge arrays or that I'm going to parallelise: Fortran 90

 

For fast code, system drivers, or code that my be seen outside the scientific community: C/C++

 

If I have to use a GUI or it needs to run on various machines: Java

 

Lots of text procesing: Perl

 

Simple number-crunching: VBA in Excel

 

Webpages: PHP

 

It definitely helps knowing a lot of languages In my opinion a programming language is like a tool. You do not use a screwdriver to hammer in a nail, unless you don't have a hammer. Similarly, you don't use Fortran for fancy windows-type software and you don't use perl to write fast software.

[Guest SyntaXVB5]

So you're informed, Fortran-90 produces the same machine-level code as C, and pascal. So theres no need to only use it for scientific reasons. It is also a good system-design language.

[Dudde]

HTML baby...heh heh heh:cool:

 

although I do hope one day to know more than just that;)

[Sayonara]

Originally posted by Dudde

HTML baby...heh heh heh:cool:

 

although I do hope one day to know more than just that;)

Learn CSS (easy), SQl (easy) and PHP (always more to learn) to go with your HTML and you'll be unstoppable.

 

Unstoppable.

[Dudde]

any links or tips or advice or teachings would be greatly appreciated in any of those areas;)

 

I'm a good learner I just haven't had the opportunity yet:-p stupid school...

[Sayonara]

http://www.glish.com/css/ is good for CSS by example, http://www.phpbuilder.com looks daunting but it's the best resource I've used for PHP and SQL.

[Dudde]

hey thanks! I'll get into learning that right away;)

[Guest Syntax]

Sayonora is referring more to web-based programming. Although used with GTK, PHP can be used to write windows applications (although I dont recommend it). If you're writing web apps, PHP/MySQL, XML, and CSS are all good to learn (as well as a understanding of HTML). Stay away from things like ASP, and Microsoft SQL as they'll run your pockets for alot of money, for just learning. PHP and MySQL are all free and open source, so they can be learned for nothing.

[Sayonara]

ASP makes me cringe. It is ugly and unnecessarily complex. Plus you pretty much have to run it under a M$ server, which is just not the way to go at all.

 

I have heard of people using PHP as a "pure" programming language. It makes me laugh. What sort of apps have you seen it used for Syntax?

[alt_f13]

Im planning to make a 3D space shooter in VB based on the old west. Any pointers?

[igor_9000]

hey now lets not go bashing asp. It hasn't cost me anything to learn other than setting up an NT based server. Besides it was very easy to make the jump from visual basic to asp. Nothing about it seems too unnecessarily complex. I think its a fine language

[blike]

3D space shooter in VB based on the old west

 

Old west space shooter? Sounds interesting. Good luck with the 3d engine in VB though. Usually 3d engines in BASIC are nice and slow :l

[YT2095]

English then Russian.

for computers. I love the old BBC Micro BASIC

after that Z80 machine code then the Motorola 68000 series ASM

[alt_f13]

Originally posted by blike

 

Old west space shooter? Sounds interesting. Good luck with the 3d engine in VB though. Usually 3d engines in BASIC are nice and slow :l

 

Tell me about it (here comes the website again )

 

http://www.djglacial.com/index2.html

 

^ Sprite based engine written in actionScript. It was fun to write but turning from 3D to 2D coordinates was rather emulated. Think cathode ray tube and grade 10 trigonometry.

 

 

Edit - VB game was a joke.