Programming Language of the Year
 

A newer category that's been extremely close the last couple years.

--jeremy

bash, awk.

Between those two and TCL/Expect, it's pretty much all I used in the last year.

Hmmm, of all the categories this is the most difficult to pick just ONE. Of the languages I use and that are listed:

Python is really nice and easy to use. The biggest drawback for me is it's use of whitespace for delimiters instead of braces or keywords.
C is a great language that lacks easy string manipulation (at least without some third-party library).
C++ is essentially the same as C with a few additions (e.g., classes).
C# is a horrible language which is compounded by the mess that is .Net. It's only redeeming qualities are the easy string manipulation and lambda expressions.
Lua is a very interesting language that shows a lot of promise.
Fortran -- what can I say about Fortran (so I won't :P).

And the winner is . . . Lua 5.2 (released mid-December) for the potential it holds. I have big designs for it in the coming year and I hope it won't disappoint.

Lisp - just because I started learning it and like its logic.

I'm surprised to see R on the list because it is so specific to statistical analysis. As a statistician, I use R extensively...but I didn't vote for it because of it's narrow focus.

I was going to say the same thing. I remember thinking this when I saw it on the poll last year, too.

COBOL ... But I like REXX. It's not listed ! :(

Hi,

Started learning Python a couple of months ago and really love it. My only 'programming' experience before was with Bash. My vote goes to Python.

Kind regards,

Eric

started learning php basics.

I love the simplicity of C. I mean it can be sometimes horribly complex but then again C is mature and relied upon.

I keep saying I'm going to learn python - but I keep using perl. This year, maybe... ?

PHP - started learning and coding it this year.

Or, if R is here, why not Matlab? or GNU Octave? or...

Java was a teacher, a mom, a big sister, a Lady and a girlfriend, still is and always will be...I learned to do OO programming in Java, before that I was confined to vb6.0...so, it figures ;)

I hope somebody votes for Ada. (But it won't be me!)

Real programmers use C
Anybody who sacrifices efficiency/speed for programming ease is wrong.

If you vote for Java, then you can't be my friend. If you vote for ASM then you are far better than me and I am not worthy of being your friend.

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Wait, are you kidding me?! ASM isn't even a choice!

What about Assembler?

I suggest creating a 'Statistical/Computational package' category, move R there, along with any of Octave, Maxima, Sage, etc.

@ Mr Alex - Oooooooooooooo, yesyesyes...the grandma of programming languages, forgot about that. Though, Forth, now there was a challenge. But, yes, Assembler, ah, too bad. So much interest, so little time...

What about VHDL?

Yeah, if you write software in assembly then you rule. There's just no denying that. I am not that good, but hope to learn some day.

So what :D - there's a lot more Java programmers that are friends...and besides, the choice of program language is totally isolated from the choice of friends...

;)

Thor

Not necessarily, it all depends on who you ask. Maybe for you the two are separate.

I really appreciate Erlang and all lisp flavours I have used (less these days since I do quite a lot of Erlang now).

I started learning about functional programming some month ago. Now I'm learning lisp which I voted for.

Markus

JavaScript anyone?

i,m using fortran.

Fortran, this guy is a winner. Your punctuation and capitalization sucks, but your programming language choice is quite noble.

JAVA rocks !!

The Zen of Python is the way to go!

Strange that JavaScript's not included, as it plays such a huge role for the Web.

They are, I can sympathise with anyone, whatever programming language they use...but, I can pity the ones that use ms languages (access, visual basic and other accidents) :)

Very difficult to choose. Python, Perl, C/C++, Lisp and Lua! :D I can vote for all this? :D:D:D Well C++ is it!

FreePascal of course:

1. neat
2. simple
3. fast

Freepascal, why not Freebasic? I use whatever will get the job done.

FreePascal/Lazarus

Python, because I'm a total python *censored*

Didn't program in Ada as much as I wanted last year...
Voted for it anyway. For what it matters, it seems I've no friends :(

voted free pascal , works on android , mac, ios and any linux

Trying to teach myself a bit of Lisp right now, so it gets my vote. At first blush a very strange, but promising language.

LOL - Me too, and Me either ;)
 

Yeah, had to learn Ada back in the early eighties when I was with the DoD, since it was kind of the *official* adopted language (and yet I never used it - Most things were done in COBOL anyway).

I picked C, because it's the basis for most things, but I most certainly would have chosen PL/I had it been in the list, because it's such a kewl language and the compiler runs on Linux too - It's not just for mainframes anymore ;)

http://www.iron-spring.com/prog_guide.html

I hope that helps, and that you add PL/I to the list too Jeremy :)

Kindest regards,

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Picked up a copy of Learning Perl (Schwartz, Phoenix, d foy) in 2011, and became enamored with the language. Seems like the most appropriate vote for me, even though I used - and deeply appreciate - several languages on the list.

I'm a little surprised Bourne shell and awk are not available as poll choices.

Lazarus RAD IDE + FreePascal compiler, of course!
It is absolutely amazing programming enviroment, free, cross-platform and very advanced.

I think there is no real alternative to it...

FreePascal/Lazarus the best RAD GUI cross plataform Languaje.

I vote "Right tool for the right job"

Ada is the right tool for? just ask, I never learned Ada ;););)

Free Pascal is my choice.

yes, fpc

Lazarus rocks

I voted python, but only because it's what I'm most familiar with. However, I'm disappointed that bash isn't included. Surely the bash shell can be considered a programming environment in its' own right.

EDIT: Just noticed that BASIC isn't there either. Are there even any BASIC environments anymore? Oh, and I cut my teeth on COBOL. Lovely language if you have to follow someone who doesn't believe in documenting code.

FPC / Lazarus IDE - the best!