the truth

C/C++ if you care about performance
Java- if you need online applications or don't mind a performance trade-off for more ease
Python-For everything else
The rest is a waste of time
Programming is not supposed to be pretty, its not supposed to be more math like and its not supposed to satisfy your every anally retentive needs.
Its there to get stuff done.

What the fuck is online application?

java is for fucking assembly line coders.

>>1
Actually, you don't get to tell us what programming is about, Mr. Code Monkey.

>>4
Okay then, what is programming about?

i have a few nitpicks with >>1:

C/C++ if you care about performance
Java- if you need online applications or don't mind a performance trade-off for more ease
Python-For everything else

all better

>>5
Look, the whole problem here is that you only see programming as something you do while being paid and sitting in a cubicle. It doesn't have to be like that all.

And even then, by your argument we would still be using Cobol, Fortran and, indeed, LISP (in all caps). If it weren't for the search of new methods and forms, the languages that are now widely used in industry wouldn't even have been invented, and you can't tell me that it wasn't at least partially driven by aesthetics.

``Rugged and industrial'' soviet looking stuff like C++ or Lenovo laptops have an aesthetic as well, even if it is one made to appeal neckbeards that reject the notion altogether in an attempt to be manly.

>>7
No its not just about getting paid
Is about having fun making programs that work instead of obsessing over trivial things

>>7

C/C++ is for rote programmers.

C/C++  if you want to develop fast, high-quality software and take advantage of the great amount of high-skilled and experienced programmers on the market.
Lisp  if only one person or a small group of fellow lispers will every see the source code.
Java  if you need code that can be maintained by a big group of cheap, replaceable programmers.
C#  if you use the .NET framework and/or need code that can be written and maintained by a big group of mediocre programmers.
Objective-C  if you develop apps for iOS. (faggot)
Assembly  for embedded systems, drivers or anything under extreme time-critical conditions.
Python  for rapid development of small projects.
Bash/Perl/Python  for quick-and-dirty scripts and write-once-run-once code.
Haskell  if you like math more than CS and are a hipster or if you just want to try something completely different.
BBCode  if you're an EXPERT PROGRAMMER.
Brainfuck  if you're smarter than everyone else

>>11
Forth and Prolog might be fun to learn

>>1

none of these languages make lambda techniques easy to use

nope.

The degree of my productivity is the degree to which the language makes thinking in lambda calculus easy and painless.

also I'm more productive than 90% of the "classes solve everything" guys that I work with

>>1
Those languages are good for domain-specific solutions, but they don't adequately address the issue of multiple-inheritance out of the box

also I'm more productive than 90% of the ⁶⁶classes solve everything⁹⁹ guys that I work with

>>15
fuck me, I meant
also I'm more productive than 90% of the ⁶⁶lambdas solve everything⁹⁹ guys that I work with

>>16
Lambda is the ultimate productiveness.

>>11
i could never understand why people bother with bash when perl is available everywhere.

>>18
Bash is relatively readable.