Programming Language of the Year

samwise17 · 01-23-2009, 01:40 AM

taylor_venable · 01-23-2009, 05:58 AM

I gotta give this one to Haskell. I find the language fascinating, and though it's still difficult for me to use, I have written some useful things in it (a Javadoc parser, for example). But the real reason I have to vote for Haskell is because I've seen its popularity just explode this year. And now there's an O'Reilly book on it too, so I'm sure that will only help keep the trend alive.

For myself, where I improved the most this last year was learning Lisp. I did more Lisp coding than I've ever done before, so I feel like I've learned a lot more about it. I don't have a lot of opportunity to use it at work or anything, but for personal use it's cool.

This year so far is looking like Tcl. I wrote up a complicated script at work in roughly three hours, just giving the language a shot without really expecting anything, but it was awesome. Definitely will be getting to know it better...

Fascinating how many people mention Groovy. I always had the impression that Groovy was kind of supposed to take over Java but then kind of fell into obscurity and never did. I hadn't paid it much mind before, but with as many people citing it in this thread, I'll have to take a look.

dudeman41465 · 01-24-2009, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by sycamorex

What about LolPython

?

Lol, I voted for just plain old python, but this has cracked me up. I can has python classez? Example code:

Code:

WHILE I CUTE?
        I AND HE CAN HAZ HE AND I ALONG WITH HE
        IZ HE BIG LIKE N?
            KTHXBYE
        U BORROW HE

jhwilliams · 01-25-2009, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by colucix

What about Fortran? Still very popular in scientific computing, waiting for the new revision "Fortran 2008".

Yes, we're all waiting enthusiastically for that....

H_TeXMeX_H · 01-26-2009, 02:41 PM

QueenZ · 01-27-2009, 09:09 AM

as i'm learning C++ and C then C++ it is..

SCerovec · 01-28-2009, 11:03 AM

As I begun to teach my oldest kid (10Yr) python, i see no logic in voting for an other language.

(we intend to "make games" :^) when we get big ;-) )

we choose python by comparing few other mayor languages "with a future" and found out that "hello world!" takes least typing in python :-)

(he is 10 and already a "lazy typer" :-( lol )

H_TeXMeX_H · 01-28-2009, 12:15 PM

fine, if bash isn't on there, I'll vote for C.

ephemeros · 01-31-2009, 04:45 AM

voted C as is my personal preference and use it for my projects. although, to be on topic i think Python deserves it! slowly but steadily, python software takes over my machine :P

SkyEye · 01-31-2009, 03:53 PM

Ruby! It's not just the language of web app (Ruby on Rails, Merb, Sinatra, etc.) developers, it's also the language of the SysAdmins (Rake, Thor, Capistrano, Puppet, Chef) and perhaps the language on the cloud too.

Kudos to Lua, Python and Erlang too.

rquinn · 02-03-2009, 08:31 AM

maybe groovy was a little quiet this year, but scala is pretty hot right now.

rarsa · 02-03-2009, 09:06 AM

Vala is growing substantially as an alternative language for Gnome.

rarsa · 02-03-2009, 09:08 AM

Python not because the language is new. but because version 3 is new.

It requires a strong commitment to decide to fix problems even if it means breaking with the past.

I've been in many projects (corporate) where I wish we were allowed to do just that.

cristoper · 02-03-2009, 11:37 AM

JavaScript, Tcl, and Pascal are all glaring omissions. I'd vote JavaScript if it were an option.

xXCanisLupusXx · 02-03-2009, 03:35 PM

Java For The Win!, Brilliant Compatibility Wise, Easy As Hell To Learn And Use Thanks To The Awesome Documentation And Community, Teamed Up With A Good IDE Like Netbeans You Can't Go Wrong!