What programming languages do you guys actually program in?
I ask because I'd like to get passed all of this C and LISP bullshit and find out which languages are actually *good* compared to the OO crap out there.
I bet the members of /prog/ are just a bunch of ENTERPRISE Java coders who wish they could program in better languages, so my questions are probably in vain...
Yeah, that was kind of my point. Are we wrong, something shitty that we may have overlooked?
It might be considered boring but what job isn't these days? At least theoretically you are "creating" if you design databases.
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Anonymous2008-01-21 14:16
Do you guys do bash scripting that often? Or is it even worth learning? If so, what's important to know how to do with it?
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Anonymous2008-01-21 14:38
I think Objective-C is a pretty cool program. eh is real OO and doesn't bloated as fuck.
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Anonymous2008-01-21 14:39
>>43
That's like asking if it's worth learning how to click a mouse.
It's not programming, it takes minutes to learn, and you use it constantly.
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Anonymous2008-01-21 15:55
VB.NET, T-SQL and C++ at work, and Python at home, for fun.
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Anonymous2008-01-21 19:36
for fun it's mostly C and ObjectiveC, and lisp now that I'm learning it
for university, whatever the teachers want, last class went from C to C# and then sql (yeah, plain sql in a paper).
C, C++, Python, Erlang for personal projects.
C, O'Caml, Python for school.
Python, JavaScript, Java for work.
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Anonymous2008-01-21 23:33
perl, C, occasionally php (yuck). Did ppc assembly when I was bringing up hardware at a startup. When people at work talk about writing stuff in lisp, we laugh at them and tell them to go back to their lovely ivory tower.
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Anonymous2008-01-22 2:33
I use Python for fun. My routines tend to be around 6 short lines; about 1/5 the amount I would write in C to get the same functionality. It takes me about 20 minutes to code something useful and test it, and I feel great afterward. This has replaced Freecell and Quake as my break.
When not programming for fun, C and win32api and mingw port of UNIX libs, which I know well, but I don't enjoy using them.
Right now I'm coding in Haskell. But before Haskell, for the past four months or so it has been Scheme. GUI programs, socket programs, servers, web pages, etc. I just figured I'd try Haskell so that is what I am doing. I've written GUI stuff and am going to work on some web page stuff in Haskell.
Before Scheme it was Common Lisp, but I don't really like Common Lisp, especially in comparison to Scheme. I think the implementations and the language itself are better. Plus Scheme as a language is worth knowing because you can implement a conforming interpreter or compiler for it very easily, anywhere.
Before Common Lisp it was C. Somewhere between Common Lisp and Scheme I learned C++, but I haven't used C++ for more than a couple projects. Don't really like it at all. I'm pretty experienced in C and Scheme.
I generally use PHP for web dev. if only because it has lots of libraries and is available on most servers. I've used Scheme for web dev on a few projects (via MzScheme's web server). Used MySQL on PHP, which is okay. And I've used SQLite with PHP and with Scheme. At the moment I use Lighttpd with FastCGI and CGI-PHP or CGI-whatever. It's really lightweight which is good because I'm using a not-so-top-of-the-range laptop as my main computer.