Favorite programing language

C/C++ is by far the best language because it allows you to do almost everything you could ever want on a computer without having to resort to writing assembly code (v. difficult!). Nearly all commercial games are written in C with a bit of assembler to speed things up

Visual Basic is okay for beginners, but it has no portability across platforms or OSs, and it's proprietory software so microsoft controls its development.

Pascal/Delphi is the best alternative to VB for beginners, but I find that it's limited when you want to perform more powerful tasks.

Perl is great for system admin on *nix, and PHP wins hands down for ease of use, portability and power on the web (which is probably why Antionline uses it to power the forums!).

pwaring.

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Originally posted by cF_nM
but you don't have to define variables (you can if you want, but you don't have to)

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Not having to define variables can be "risky" and hard to debug when you're program gets big...
I think forcing yourself to declare/define variables is good programing practice....

JC

i use vb to create systems more often than any other language because it's fast to use (RAD). if i have more time, i'd use another language. also, i choose cf for web development because for the past few months, my clients wants to have fast results. i'd use php if i have more time. besides, i still consider myself new in php world. but hey, this thread is talking about your favorite language. so peace! :p

I didn't think that i would get this many replies.

you should've expected this is the world of programmers. just shown you that we appreciated your thread. :p

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Originally posted by ammo
I think forcing yourself to declare/define variables is good programing practice....

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So true. When those memory leaks start happening don't come whining to me cuz you forgot what variables you made and what variables you forgot to destroy.

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Originally posted by ThePreacher
:cool: I really like java and visual basic, however there is nothing like the unstructured madness of QuickBasic.

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the gorilla and nibbles/snake games for QuickBasic were quite amusing. i also remember driving everyone in the computer room nuts by programming a siren.

as far as programming goes, BASIC and the other BASICs were fun and easy to learn (i first learnt it on a CP/M).

Visual Basic, although Microsoft, is also easy to learn and use, although my use for it is limited to Excel.

even with C++, java and C# around i think C still a good language to learn.:D

on the side, anyone know any good compilers that work in C/C++, Perl, VBasic(if possible), assembly, and maybe more?
thanks

hello Kezil,

I'm not sure what operating system your using, but if you are running Windows, I can offers a few places to find compilers & interpreters.

For C++ I recommend you take a look at Borlands Website, they have alot of FREE tools available including a free C++ compiler (I think for the compiler & debugger, it was about a 9-10MB download).

If you interested in Perl ... I suggest that you visit ActiveState, they (according to my reading) are the leader in Perl Development on a Win32 system. They have a free downloadable interpreter (About a 9MB Download) with lots of good documentation.

Visual Basic, hmmm, that's a tough one, I have yet to see a Visual Basic Compiler that is available for FREE.

Assembly, again Borland has alot of great tools, but I think you have to pay for Borlands Turbo Assembler, however, Micro$oft released a FREE assembly compiler called MASM.

More...

If your interested in learning Java, I would highly recommend that you visit Sun MicroSystems (The Creators of Java) they have a FREE compiler for Java as well as documentation and a very comphrensive tutorial. Also, I would suggest a program called RealJ, its not a compiler, but a great text editor for Java, It's FREE and well worth the measly 800k download.

You can find links to all the above tools at my site:
www.geocities.com/pharmicomlabs

Under the "Programming Tools" section.

I hope this has helped :)

wow...M$ gave something away for free?!?!?:eek:

Anyway, thanks for all the compiler links, I'll definately look into them, but my question was more if anyone had created a single compiler that worked for all those languages. If not, then there's an idea for me (or perhaps one of you intelligent programmers out there) to work on. Got alot of work to do though, only know a bit of VB and beginning to learn C/C++(which gets my vote, so far).

Again, thanks