What's your favorite programming language?

[Tyler]

I was going to make this a poll, but there are a bunch of languages that I'm sure I've never heard of.

So, what's your favorite language and why?

[Bryan]

Dr. Scheme

but in all seriousness I don't think I have any one favorite language.

[bill corcoran]

my favorite is binary.  because it's not a language, it's a numbering system  =)

[Kade P. Cole]

I am kinda partial to the P's from LAMP. Perl, PHP and Python are  very flexible and great for writing quick web apps. The best is that they are so portable and can be used on any platform with one writing. I like to keep things simple and flexible.

[Guest]

My favorite language is C++!!!!
(powerful isnt it?)

[Tyler]

Long live PHP!

[raptor]

What no one wants to use punch cards any more. And whatever happened to good 'ol BASIC

can I get a gosub

Scott

[The_ME]

Forth. It's simple, small, and interactive. Right now I am using the RetroForth flavor.

[Jerry]

The_ME wrote:
Forth. It's simple, small, and interactive. Right now I am using the RetroForth flavor.

I like the bottom-up languages like Forth, though Lisp is my favorite.

[William Grim]

My favorite "portable ASM" language is C because of its flexibility, speed, and low-level acceptance.

I'd have to say I like python the best out of the scripting world.  Though, I have really only used /bin/sh, PHP, python, and perl.  I tried ruby one day, but I didn't have time to learn how to use it.

[Ahmed]

no one likes c# ?

[Peter Motyka]

As much as I hate to admit it... I am quite fond of C# and the .NET framework.  I've been porting code over from Java to this platform and have found instances where logic requiring several lines of Java can be reimplented in a single C#/.NET statement.

However, C# is not my favorite programming language.  When I really want to get my jollies writting code, I fire up a SSH session and VIM and churn out some PHP.

[derrickb52]

I notice a lot of people replying, but very few explaining why they like this or that language... I'm curious, what makes PHP so great? I read up on it a little, but it doesn't look very appetizing to me.

As far as what I like? I'd say C++. Is it powerful? What's the definition? It's fairly portable, and there is a lot of support for doing some low level programming (device drivers, other OS stuff), and for serious processor efficient stuff, as well as higher level stuff (MFC), of course if you're going to build a GUI you may as well use something simpler like VB.

I also kinda dig the whole DOM thing that is trying to happen in HTML, if only all the browsers would stick to a standard. And let's not forget about Javascript! Totally awesome...

Yep

[Jarod Neuner]

Assembly, because I never have a doubt about what a statement is really doing.

[Bryan]

I guess it is hard to confuse what the statment "move value x from memory location y to memory location z" is actually doing   :-P