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jinjie wrote:Can't believe that C++ is actually have the highest vote. I tried learning C++ all these years and didn't really did a good program out using C++. the programming language is far too difficult to learn. too much understanding of those memory and machine stuffs.. OUT OF IT! ha.. If i were asked to do an executable program for clients, I will prefer program it in Visual Basic because it's much easier than any programming language out there that compiles exe file.

You could look at it from the angle that if it's difficult to learn and you need to know 'lots', the language would prove equally powerful?

I'm trying to learn Python right now. Getting the hang of creating graphical apps using Tkinter. Lots of people suggest it as a good language for beginners, and since I've no real experience scripting/programming outside of Bash at home and a quick VB course at high school, I figured it'd be a good place to build a foundation.

OOP makes my head hurt. I'll figure it out eventually though.

tc9669 wrote:What you think is the BEST and simple programming language

"simple" and "best" are completely meaningless terms w/o a context. language usage is a matter of self-expression.

now, if you mean best within the context of code optimization, then i guess it would be whatever language that gives the coder the most freedom for self-expression.

simple i wont touch.

uhh... python is missing...
for little Internet applications i think php is the easiest
for any other kernel near or performance application C/C++ is the best!

There is no best programming language. The different languages are meant to do different things, and they are all good at that. I'd say PHP for webpages and C/C++ for programs and whatnot. I voted C/C++ because I'd say it's used alot. I want to learn it !
I'll probably go buy a book on C++ from Chapters...
Heh, I'll do that tomorrow!

tc9669 wrote:What you think is the BEST and simple programming language

Your speaking in oxymorons, best has little to do with simple and vice versa. C++ is the most useful and freely available, it's also very good on resources compaired to others you mentioned, some of which are not programming langauges but instead scripting languages B.T.W.

Anyone can get the tools required to program and compile in C++ for FREE, you can even get an operating system to do it on for FREE and if you look hard enough you can even get a computer for it for FREE and C++ can stand on it's own without all those nasty runtime files that your always missing and can run on probably any operating system made, which is something you can't say about some of the others, none of them are simple though if they were then everyone would be doing it and no one would be getting paid for it.

LOL I voted for Java but I think it is cos of the portability to different OSes
Isn't C++ considered one of the most unstable languages?

It depends on how complicated it is that I try to make. For complicated programs certainly C is the best. But if you want to write some simple 'programs' for web-use, it is enough to use scripts, like PHP or Perl... So I don't vote.

Botamz wrote:LOL I voted for Java but I think it is cos of the portability to different OSes
Isn't C++ considered one of the most unstable languages?

Only in Microsoft products.

That has more to do with the programmer than the programing language.

I don't know much about programing languages but i heard C was used in robotics and that kind of stuff, and I am really interested in that stuff..

This poll means nothing... We can't compare PHP with C and etc...

Some languages have a main specific goal, VB for easy interfacing (and etc...), C/C++ for memory management (and etc...), PHP for web pages (and etc...), JAVA for compatibility (etc...), etc...

You can say everything you want, we can't globaly compare these languages between them because they are not all in the same categories.

How bout Assembly? It's difficult, lean, and mean.

Try BrainF*ck, that's a fun language. See if you can program something useful in it.

i Choosed c and c plus plus because there is a lot of posobilities and APIs to do with this language and linux is in C .

It depends on that how well u learn the leanguage, for expmle if i know c++ well i`ll prefer it instead VB. but i think c++ is the best by now