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Programming language

Name: Anonymous 2010-04-12 13:33

Go on, /prog/. What's your language(s) of choice and why?

Name: Anonymous 2010-04-12 21:29

C. But that's boring so forget why.

Languages which (sadly) aren't (and why):

Clojure
I'm prejudiced against JVM. I wouldn't let that stop me, but more than one person has quoted access to Java libs as a plus.

Go
The "Go way" demands lots of boilerplate. C with libs for concurrency, comms and GC would be more concise. It was very promising until I realized this.

Erlang
It is my primary concurrent language. I just don't write using concurrency as much as I should.

ECMAScript
For want of a satisfactory implementation.

Honorable (not-so-sadly) mentions:

Python
Ideally I want strong concurrency, powerful closures, tailcall elimination and NO EXCEPTIONS. Obviously not Python.

Haskell
Tries hard to deny the machine. That's not a bad thing (except when it is) but most of my work is highly machine-relevant.

Perl
Been there, done that--what was I thinking? (Everything, apparently. All at once.)

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