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View Poll Results: Programming Language of the Year
gregvp shell is not PL, i'd say it's a tool to merge coreutils in something interesting
I think, guys, there won't be any addition, so i'll vote for C as the closest to assembler on performance level.
I love to hate Java, but I love writing it. Programs write like butter. When I have to go back and write in C or C++, I'm reminded how nice Java is.
Now the reasons I dislike Java are all runtime, it's a memory hog and despite what some say, I've never seen a Java program outperform a well written C or C++ program.
maybe for the 2010 polls you could split it up into multiple sections.
eg:
Compiler Languages
C, C++, Fortran, COBOL, Java etc
Scripting Languages
PHP, Python, KSH-93, bash etc
Programming Environments
R, S, Octavia etc
I'm quite happy to vote for "C" but also would like to have the option to vote for good old Korn Shell as well (multi-dimensional arrays in a shell script anyone?).
I wonder - how many of these will get more than 1 or 2 votes?
There are probably more users of R than one would think. But then, you would be right that it is not likely to get many votes on this site: many of its users are on Windows.
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