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Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by GekkoP » Sat May 09, 2015 11:21 am

I know many of us here play with programming languages.
Or played.
Or plan to play with one in the foreseeable future.

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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by wuxmedia » Sat May 09, 2015 2:01 pm

I'm supposed to be learning C, looks pretty easy... :)
Scratch is about my level right now ;)
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by elixir » Sun May 10, 2015 8:13 am

I like C a lot. I recently bought a perl book, which is pretty fun so I practice perl more than C now. Been trying out scheme and prolog, they are pretty fun and different :)

Plan of learning some web stuff in the near feature. CSS and JavaScript.

What about everyone else?
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by machinebacon » Sun May 10, 2015 11:03 am

I have been reading quite a lot on Perl in the last weeks, not really practically, just reading before going to bed. Else I try to do everything with a shell script whenever possible (Bash is usually installed, python or perl not always).
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by DebianJoe » Sun May 10, 2015 11:53 am

I like programming languages, all of them.

I prefer to work in some C or any lisp variant, which surprises exactly 100% of nobody probably. I know what very little I know very poorly. You know, the basics: shell, python 2 & 3, C, C++, R, scheme, common-lisp, elisp, assembly, D, perl, batch, ladder logic, Objective-C, ruby, javascript, object lisp, J++.

None of them at any level of mastery, just enough to do some basic things in any of them.
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by GekkoP » Sun May 10, 2015 6:38 pm

Java, of course.

No, seriously, I'd have to (obviously) go with Clojure and Elisp.
Haskell didn't get me in the end. As much as I loved doing C in the past, I prefer working in Lisp fashion these days.

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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by slartie » Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:11 am

I guess I'd pick C as my top choice, but really I like most languages. They just have to be sane for the task I'm doing.

So depending on the job I'd go for any number of languages. Perl is another favourite. It's the perfect fit for a lot of parsing (duh!) tasks, and hell, just about anything can be considered parsing.

I can't stress it enough. Everybody should know at least 2-3 languages to some competency level. Never lock yourself down.

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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Sat Jun 27, 2015 7:28 pm

I don't really know one langauge well enough for an opinion of mine to count, but I do have to say that Scheme/Lisp has always seemed more coherent to me than most others.
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by twoion » Sat Jul 04, 2015 12:24 am

C (-std=c99 or -std=gnu99) and Lua.

It seems these will be joined by racket (Lisp/Scheme family) soon. I have been learning and using it for 2 months or so now and found it to be much nicer than Haskell ;) The library situation is great too.

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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by elixir » Sat Jul 04, 2015 1:52 am

^ I have given racket a try before. Lisp/Scheme Family languages are always very fun in my opinion! Nice choices in programming languages, twoion :)
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by franksinistra » Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:27 pm

My favorite programming language now is the name of the guy above. Been learning it for 3 months, and i must say i like it. It's basically python+ruby+clojure+erlang for the curious.
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by doubledutch » Thu Dec 03, 2015 9:50 pm

I once started learning Clojure but leaving my job and moving across the country redirected my focus and I never got back to it. Shame, as I had Leiningen configured beautifully.
Currently it's bash and some perl (perlmonks user since 2002) but recently my use of perl has been eclipsed by the frequency with which I modify python scripts.
Come to think of it, I realllly owe a lot to python, especially recently! If it weren't for python, I wouldn't understand apparmor or nmap as well as I do.
If somebody told me they wanted to learn python, I'd recommend they read the first 3 chapters of 5 different python tutorials and then get a python script they have use for and try modifying it to be more useful.

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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by simgin » Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:09 am

I'd recommend they read the first 3 chapters of 5 different python tutorials
Literally? Because I am going back to it, and I have for some fucking reason forgotten most of it :(
So I am looking for some quick methods to get back up to speed with Python.

I appreciate your feedback.

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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by DebianJoe » Fri Dec 04, 2015 6:42 am

Python is cool enough that I overlook the fact that it has forced indentation. I play with Python 2 constantly still, as it's the version which I'm most comfortable using, but UCBerkley's SICP in Python 3 is a really interesting read and would probably make for a reasonable way to become more comfortable with Python 3.
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by darry1966 » Fri Dec 04, 2015 6:50 am

Joe Welcome back.:)
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by simgin » Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:30 am

Wuhuuu, Joe is back :)
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by rhowaldt » Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:03 am

Learn Python the Hard Way is the best way of tackling it i've found. used it and liked it.
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by simgin » Sat Dec 05, 2015 9:49 am

^ Cool thank you for the link Rosie :)
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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:14 pm

I've been stretching my mind with Haskell again these days. With a bit more solid background in functional programming thanks to Clojure, I am in love with this crazy Haskell now.

It's kind of a rite of passage before digging into Idris, to be honest.

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Re: Favorite programming language(s)

Unread post by doubledutch » Thu Nov 09, 2017 5:09 pm

Dipping back into perl now to learn sockets...

...will sometime wander back to red-lang.org
The current issue is that I'm poor enough of a coder that the red documentation provides some hurdles in the form of coding fundamentals that I really need to get past. I'm poor enough of a coder that Red/RedSYS will be much more worth a second look the next time some good documentation is published (of which there is currently plenty). I have a number of questions about red that I just think are general coding RTFMs.

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