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What you think is the BEST and simple programming language

ooh, can I be the first to complain that PHP or JavaScript aren't programming languages?

I voted C/C++, but really I think it all depends on what you want to do. There is no "best" programming language, they all have their own uses and are better for different things.
I like C++ because it's used for game programming, and C is what I use in robotics (which is frickin' awesome).

I voted for C/C++ because of presence but personally I think perl.

~c

Once again there's no "other" botton, or even better buttons "scheme", "haskell", "ruby", "erlang", "smalltalk", "eiffel", "common lisp" and "other". So I abstain from voting.

Thomas

hafner wrote:Once again there's no "other" botton, or even better buttons "scheme", "haskell", "ruby", "erlang", "smalltalk", "eiffel", "common lisp" and "other". So I abstain from voting.

Thomas

Lol I forgot that

Samppa wrote:ooh, can I be the first to complain that PHP or JavaScript aren't programming languages?

Well as long as I know they ARE programming languages !! Google and you'll see

Bugs42 wrote:I voted C/C++, but really I think it all depends on what you want to do. There is no "best" programming language, they all have their own uses and are better for different things.
I like C++ because it's used for game programming, and C is what I use in robotics (which is frickin' awesome).

Well I knwo thet every language has it's own use...but what I mean is the simpilcity of the programming language, perhaps object oriented laguagers are more simple and the syntax for example in some langauges with 2 lines of code you will do something quite good and if the languages supports API and etc etc etc... thats what I mean with "BEST"

tc9669 wrote:

Samppa wrote:ooh, can I be the first to complain that PHP or JavaScript aren't programming languages?

Well as long as I know they ARE programming languages !! Google and you'll see

Aye, but there's been some tightar**s complain they're actually scripting languages.

Well, while you will have much work to write a C program for a homepage for which i'd use PHP, besides for simply scripts you can usually stick to bash, tcl or if it must be... *choke* perl ^-^. So I believe if you want to "prgram" somethign and not just writing a ~20 line script, you can stick to C. With some practiceabout the data types it isnt reallly mre difficult as perl and compiling with a GNU enviroment isnt really any effort either.

PS: im currently converting a perl script to C, because perl sucks imho .

I think what c/c++ is the right choose but dont know what is the best... Many peoples using different languages and get same or better result.

i chose c/c++ because imo it's the most powerful language and you can create good games with it

ooh, can I be the first to complain that PHP or JavaScript aren't programming languages?

You can, but then I'm going to make fun of you.

php is a programming language. It is optomized to use cgi as input and html as output but this is not a requirement. It allows fully object oriented programming, exception handling, etc. Yes, it is an interperated language (sort of) but then so are tcl, perl, python, and Java.

You might have more of a point WRT javascript, but I don't see how you can say VB is a programming language and JS is not.

-selket

Samppa wrote:

tc9669 wrote:

Samppa wrote:ooh, can I be the first to complain that PHP or JavaScript aren't programming languages?

Well as long as I know they ARE programming languages !! Google and you'll see

Aye, but there's been some tightar**s complain they're actually scripting languages.

Aye, but there's been some tightar**s complain they're actually scripting languages.

Who? Let me at 'em

But really, I think we need a rigourous definition of "scripting language" to continue this discussion. I think of scripting languages as being languages that enable you to script operations that are normally performed by a user, like bash scripts, VBA, elisp (as opposed to scheme propper), dos .bat files.

-selket