Favorite Programming Language what is your favorite progamming language and why?

there are loads of languages that can be used to program.each has advantages.and each language has disadvantages.so what is your favorite language?and if you like to add to your answer, why is this specific language your favorite one?

there are loads of languages that can be used to program.each has advantages.
and each language has disadvantages.
so what is your favorite language?
and if you like to add to your answer, why is this specific language your favorite one?

I had huge interest in computer programming and programming languages but I could not learn any of them because the field of which I am a professional student is not related in any way to computers and programming languages. I started to learn the GW Basic when I was about 13 and I learned quite easily. Then i was suggested by an elder who knew computers that I should now go for the visual basic. I bought the visual basic and a big book for learning it. I remember that I read 100 pages on the first day when I bought the book. I was doing good with it but then as things got complicated and I got more and more busy with my professional study, I failed to gain more knowledge and learn more languages. Now I only know GW basic (the major part, I have just forgot) and very little of visual basic. Nothing else.
As I am hosting a website therefore I am planning to learn HTML in the future. I have researched about it and found lot of people saying that it is very easy and I may learn it even in a week.

My favorite language is Java (as of right now). I wrote a bunch of games using the GUI provided by the Java API so that made things go a lot smoother. I'm trying to branch out into other languages such as C++ as well.

Maybe we could add a poll in this topic? Naming the programming language we like? Which ones should be proposed for voting?I see Java.I see C++I see basic languageDo you see other ones?Personally I loveFortranUnix ksh scripting (csh far less)ms-dos bat scripting filesAnd don't forget SQL , namely SQL*plus for Oracle databases.And slightly less : cobolSo, shall we add a poll? With which languages? Answer here and I will gather your ideas and let's see how the poll will behave. :)Of course, the roadmap is that way :You say if you like the ideazenia agrees with the topic modification.And then you vote.

Yea, I'm up for a poll. If you do in fact make one, don't forget to add languages such as Python and Perl. Maybe add Ruby in as well.

I personally used a lot of c, c++ and basic, but now I mainly do web development and oracle, with oracle I use PL/SQL and in web development I am using the standard PHP, MySQL, HTML+CSS, Javascript, mainly JQuery..I also now a lot of C# and sometimes I need to write an application with it.

I started with C programming first and then later moved to C++ as per college course. I found both these languages boring because i was tired of creating console programs. Then there was matlab and scilab in my course. Mathworks was there as well for one lab paper and later similar scientific languages were there for the semister. Personally i studied java from my own online tutorials and then learned python as well. Python was the easy language i learned so far. The syntax was very easy in comparison to other programs and you can also learn how to program effectively. Now that i learned these important languages my current focus is on Ruby and C#. Ruby on rails is the one that i'm thinking for my web development projects. It's not that easy when you're playing with too many languages. So from my experience i can tell you that you should consider learning python first then move on with C/C++ and then C#. I don't know what's the benefit of java in long run but i guess .NET framework is recognized by many software developers and it is preferred over many other run-time environment. So there isn't any favorite language of mine. I just try to learn the language as per my project requirement and move on. This way i don't become language biased or religious which is my goal in both on and off programming world. But still to answer OP's question, python and C# are the favorite.

i think it's once yea have set a ground foundation on many languages, you can sit down and pick a particular language to focus on... or a particular language that one favors... because when you master one language, it will be much easier to move around working with other languages...but for me... i don't really like hard-core programming so i stick to scripting php (but i prefer css/html and javascript if they are even considered languages)

I would like to say here that although programs can be interpreted (e.g. PHP) or compiled (e.g. Java, C), markup languages such as HTML, XML cannot be considered programming languages, as they do not enable one to write an algorithm in order to perform calculations or do anything. Rather, HTML describes the structure of web pages (and XML similarly with documents).

 

Personally I prefer JavaScript and PHP, as they are more prominent in web-based applications, however in high school we used Java in grade 11 and C in grade 12. In University the introduction to programming course teaches Java, however I've heard that other programming courses use C. Both of them I am comfortable with.

 

Of course I've heard of things like BASIC, C++, C#, etc., but I've never really investigated or used them.

I would like to say here that although programs can be interpreted (e.g. PHP) or compiled (e.g. Java, C), markup languages such as HTML, XML cannot be considered programming languages, as they do not enable one to write an algorithm in order to perform calculations or do anything. Rather, HTML describes the structure of web pages (and XML similarly with documents)...

i guess it really comes down to how one sees a programming language to be... HTML is interpreted on the fly, some characteristics of Java falls in the same line

I would say that html is somehow like PosCript, it's a way of describing how to display a page, it's falsely named "programming" although it's a kind of language, because it has it's own syntax.html is often married with php, which looks like a real language.

I would say that html is somehow like PosCript, it's a way of describing how to display a page, it's falsely named "programming" although it's a kind of language, because it has it's own syntax.

agree, and also because HTML says it all - HyperText Markup LANGUAGE

OK, now I agree.LANGUAGE, and not PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE.C, fortran, Cobol are programming things. html is only a language.And if I start speaking German, this will be quite a program.

I personally like java. But for anyone who likes programming its all about logic implementation and language is truly immaterial. In VB like programmes are being made quickly you don’t have to take care of the language constructs. I like java as it is cross platform and truly secure. Sun Microsystems people made java so that they don’t throw away older things right away. Like in java 1.4 there wasn’t any generics for collection framework. But with jdk1.5 generics is there i.e. type information can be associated with collection classes and interfaces. But at runtime this type information is deleted through a process called type erasure so at runtime both pre generics and post generics collection objects are same. So they keep on changing things as per need but keeping intact older things.Note:please delete the duplicate reply for the same post made a few minutes back as guest_ananya