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Choice Votes   Percent
TI-BASIC 119 34.4%   
z80 Assembly 34 9.8%   
68k Assembly 3 0.9%   
C 38 11.0%   
C++ 33 9.5%   
Objective-C 5 1.4%   
Perl 5 1.4%   
Java 27 7.8%   
JavaScript 3 0.9%   
PHP 18 5.2%   
Python 4 1.2%   
Delphi 4 1.2%   
COBOL 0 0.0%   
FORTRAN 2 0.6%   
AppleScript 1 0.3%   
Windows Batch 0 0.0%   
VBScript 4 1.2%   
UNIX shell script 1 0.3%   
Other Assembly 0 0.0%   
Other C-derived language 3 0.9%   
Other Web language 5 1.4%   
Other BASIC 20 5.8%   
Other scripting language 4 1.2%   
I do not program 13 3.8%   

Survey posted 2004-10-02 21:33 by Morgan.

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Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Paul Houser Account Info
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I'm suprised no one has chosen FORTRAN [as of 18:26 10-03-04 GMT-6:00]. FORTRAN4 is still widely used and OOP-FORTRAN is making a comeback.

Reply to this comment    3 October 2004, 23:27 GMT


Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
anykey  Account Info

Not to mention knee-high socks too!

Reply to this comment    3 October 2004, 23:36 GMT


Re: Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Matthew Marshall  Account Info
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Hey, AbSoft recently released a FORTRAN77 compiler of MacOSX! (Or, at least I think I remember reading that; I could have made it up.)

MWM

Reply to this comment    6 October 2004, 02:00 GMT

Re: What language do you mostly program in?
anykey  Account Info
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As of now, I'm the only Python programmer. *feels left out*

Reply to this comment    3 October 2004, 23:37 GMT


Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Matthew Marshall  Account Info
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Just because you are the only one who programs _mostly_ in python, doesn't mean that you are the only _python programmer_. I program in Python, (and love it,) but for the past year, most of my programming has been in z80 asm.

MWM

Reply to this comment    6 October 2004, 02:04 GMT

Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Ayial Account Info

GWBasic!!! 1983-1987. lol

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 01:05 GMT


Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Paul Houser Account Info
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Geewiz... do they still ship that with Windows? (Win2k still comes with QBasic). GW came with my version Windows 98.

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 16:35 GMT


Re: Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Ayial Account Info

I dunno. I learned it waaay back in 7th grade when my teacher decided he was going teach us programming. Which was the most awesome math course ever! : )
We mainly learned how to animate with it.

Anyways I had to mention it because it was my first language ever. *sniff*.

Reply to this comment    5 October 2004, 00:12 GMT

I am multilingual
jvdthwip Account Info

I actually program in Visual Basic, QBasic, Javascript, TI-Basic, z80 assembly...
But I could only check one option.

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 01:46 GMT


Re: I am multilingual
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Sweet, those are my main languages, except for VB. JS was my first language. :) That was... wow... over four years ago.

Reply to this comment    6 October 2004, 21:39 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

My first language was QBASIC, which I started using when I was around 10, I think. :-)

Reply to this comment    9 October 2004, 23:16 GMT


Re: ¤
Matthew Marshall  Account Info
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I started trying to work with QBASIC when I was about 8. I remember that all the documentation that I had was from a very old computer that my dad had -- the type that used tape players to store information -- with a BASIC interpreter that was pre-GWBASIC.

My first program was named 'dots'. It asked for a number, and then printed that number of periods. Funny thing is, I couldn't figure out what 'FOR' was used for. And, the little book didn't mention 'WHILE', so I had to figure out how to create a non-everlasting loop using IF, GOTO, and line numbers.

I still have that old hard disk laying around... I ought to take a look at that code again.

MWM

Reply to this comment    10 October 2004, 05:29 GMT

Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Wesley Cowan  Account Info

Ruby! It's all about ruby. No one has mentioned ruby once on all these many postings. It's a quite nice language, I would say. Scripting language. Very object oriented. The syntax also makes for short, powerful code in a lot of cases. My only real objection to it is that it is a scripting language.

But, like I said - It's a quite nice language.

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 03:59 GMT


Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
silhusk  Account Info

Ada95 and Eiffel haven't been mentioned either. They are nice OO languages, they reduce bugs and make debugging easy. Eiffel is simple to write in, unfortunately a 'hello world' project takes about 20MB.
What I don't like of these languages is that they rely on C++ to compile, then why not writing directly in C++ ? :)

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 12:53 GMT

Re: Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Chivo  Account Info

What do you mean they rely on C++ to compile?

Surely you're referring only to a specific implementation of an Ada and/or an Eiffel compiler, are you? The Ada language was designed in the 70's, and C++ was designed in the 80's (1982, I think).

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 16:33 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
silhusk  Account Info

I don't remember about Ada (I used adagide, but which compiler?) and you're right, it was designed in the late 70's... althougt Ada95 is a revision terminated in 1995 I don't see why they should have created such a dependency form C++.
About Eiffel: AFAIK it "translates" the code you write in C++ and then compiles it, thus relying on a C++ compiler (I'm referring to ISE EiffelStudio)

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 21:28 GMT


Re: Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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>>> "unfortunately a 'hello world' project takes about 20MB"

Wow.

Reply to this comment    6 October 2004, 21:40 GMT

Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Gergely Patai  Account Info
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I program quite much in Prolog, SML and Haskell, none of which can be fit into any of the categories, the 'others' included...

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 15:47 GMT


Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Chivo  Account Info

I tried to learn Prolog, but I can't think of any real-life uses for it. How do you typically use it?

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 16:44 GMT


Re: Re: Re: What language do you mostly program in?
Gergely Patai  Account Info
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Its main strength is, as its name suggests, in performing logical inference, therefore it often appears in various AI applications. It's also quite strong in symbolic data manipulation, especially tree structures (although it can work with any topology). It is often packed with constraint solving systems (CLP*) that can do an amazing job in general solution searching tasks (routing, scheduling, arrangement problems etc.). Sometimes it is used as a configurational tool or a substitute to makefiles.

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 21:18 GMT

Cocoa Rules!!
CajunLuke  Account Info

Yay... I'm not the only one programming in Objective-C!

@class pointlessClass
{
NSTextField *myText;
}

-(void) sayString:(NSString)inString
{
[myText setTextValue:inString];
[myText setEnabled:false];
}

@end

Reply to this comment    4 October 2004, 17:40 GMT

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