1. Lisp family, because it's Lisp, no need to say anything.
2. Pascal, because it's a still used descent of ALGOL, and Dijkstra liked it.
3. Objective-C, because it brings a good object-oriented system to C, unlike C++.
4. C, because it's C.
5. Haskell, because it's purely functional.
DECENT LANGUAGES if you use them wisely:
Python/Ruby/Perl
1. Lisp (even though all the existing variants more or less suck)
2. C (which I actually don't like, but because there's no way you could ever hide from it, I've made myself believe I do)
I don't really like other languages all that much. I do regularly willingly use Python because it makes many common daily things easy and I kind of like the syntax, but as a language, it's awful. I also use Lua because LuaJIT is so great, but I don't think I need to explain why Lua the language is crap.
Favourites:
ABC Programming Language, Scheme, Haskell, Smalltalk, Self, Io, APL, Forth.
I also like:
ML, Common Lisp.
I'm interested in:
Idris, Rust, Deca.
I would not kill myself if I had to write in:
Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby, Scala, F#, post-LINQ C#, Clojure, C, JavaScript.
I would kill myself if I had to write in:
C, Java, C++.
I loathe:
Python, Clojure, C and derivatives, Go.
Don't like: Java, Ruby, Perl, almost everything ``object-oriented''
That's all I've tried.
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Anonymous2012-01-05 13:17
>>1
I like English, of course. It's practical, concise, powerful.
I like German swearing.
I strongly dislike French, for all its fame as a "language of love", when I listen to actual modern francophones it's full of guttural sounds, croaks, rattles and other stuff that brings to mind an image of a terminally ill but still dangerous wild animal, not of a gentle lover. I don't know, maybe it's sandnigger influence.
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Anonymous2012-01-05 13:25
>>19
Francophone here. Maybe you were listening to French people. I'm sure you wouldn't find it as bad in Quebec (i.e. "French Canada"). The pronunciation is less "guttural" than your typical Parisian accent.
I like C. It's compact and simple, yet very powerful, it's truly beautiful. It's also quite fast and portable, and there are many C libraries available for almost everything. As long as I have the choice, I'll use it. For scripting/quick and dirty stuff, I'll use Python. I don't really like it, though. I hate Java and C++ OH GOD WHY DO PEOPLE USE THOSE. Everything else is acceptable.
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Anonymous2012-01-05 22:27
i think my favorite "language" might be regular expressions
simple and small, not turing complete, embedded in almost every other programming language.
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Anonymous2012-01-06 0:11
Favorites:
C, Perl, APL, Scheme, Common Lisp, POP-11
Not that bad:
Forth, JavaScript, Prolog, Smalltalk, Pascal, Ruby
I find a bench and use my iPod and ask twitter how to say "I'm sorry" and "No" in Japanese. Syd response with something like "You can't because you need context." No one else on twitter responded. Eventually I reach the main hall of the mall, and its very large, large enough that people can ride bikes through it and normal pedestrians have no fear of being crashed into. Speaking of bikes, apparently one of the new fads in Japan is girls riding bikes in lolitas-style dresses, only the dresses are so starch-y that they stick up straight, allowing the people behind the girl to see clearly up her dress and see her panties.
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Anonymous2013-08-31 8:15
While I appreciate that your convictions are relevant to you, I'm afraid I can't really follow as I have no particular opinion on the matter. It occurs to me that while I do have opinions on a variety of other topics, discussing them with people is rarely a fruitful exercise. At times people agree, other times they disagree, and often they simply don't find them relevant to their personal lives. It isn't that anyone's opinion is more or less valuable than anyone else's; just not as relevant to one individual as it is to another.