Favorite programming language(s)
Favorite programming language(s)
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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Or played.
Or plan to play with one in the foreseeable future.
Let's talk.
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I'm supposed to be learning C, looks pretty easy... :)
Scratch is about my level right now ;)
Scratch is about my level right now ;)
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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 :)
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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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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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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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.
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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^ 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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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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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.
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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Literally? Because I am going back to it, and I have for some fucking reason forgotten most of it :(I'd recommend they read the first 3 chapters of 5 different python tutorials
So I am looking for some quick methods to get back up to speed with Python.
I appreciate your feedback.
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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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Wuhuuu, Joe is back :)
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Learn Python the Hard Way is the best way of tackling it i've found. used it and liked it.
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^ Cool thank you for the link Rosie :)
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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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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.
...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.