C vs. Your Favorite Application Language

jhwilliams · 08-24-2007, 01:48 PM

Obviously different languages are good for different things. The GNU project still recommends development in C. What's your vote?

jiml8 · 08-24-2007, 02:23 PM

Where is Perl? PHP? Basic? Forth? Fortran?

MensaWater · 08-24-2007, 02:28 PM

or lithp...

Nylex · 08-24-2007, 02:31 PM

Or Prolog..

paulsm4 · 08-24-2007, 02:55 PM

I thought I heard that they're re-writing the Linux kernel in Ada.

And that the GNU folks are working on an MSIL compiler so the whole thing'll run under .Net.

jhwilliams · 08-24-2007, 03:36 PM

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Where is Perl? PHP? Basic? Forth? Fortran?

Perl: Never used it - probably should have put this in the poll though, sorry.
Basic: Didn't think this was in wide use.
Forth: Never heard of it.
Fortran: I was born in 1986.

Nylex · 08-24-2007, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by jlightner

or lithp...

This made me laugh

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jhwilliams · 08-24-2007, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by jlightner
or lithp...

Oh - haha. That one slipped right by me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...hp&redirect=no

jiml8 · 08-24-2007, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by paulsm4

I thought I heard that they're re-writing the Linux kernel in Ada.

And that the GNU folks are working on an MSIL compiler so the whole thing'll run under .Net.

Yeah. I forgot about Ada. And JOVIAL, of course.

jiml8 · 08-24-2007, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jhwilliams

Perl: Never used it - probably should have put this in the poll though, sorry.
Basic: Didn't think this was in wide use.

Never heard of Visual Basic? Granted that it isn't more than passingly related to the original Basic, it still carries the name.

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Forth: Never heard of it.
Fortran: I was born in 1986.

*shrug* I last programmed some fortran about 2 years ago. It is still in widespread use, mostly in labs I think. There is a GNU fortran compiler.

And as far as that goes, I was doing major Fortran work for many years before you were born, and was publishing magazine articles using it when you were still not potty trained.

Tinkster · 08-24-2007, 04:42 PM

Omitting perl was a crime :}

jhwilliams · 08-24-2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by jiml8

Never heard of Visual Basic?

The first program I wrote, when I was 11, was in VB. It popped up a window with an image of cheese and exclaimed "Cheese is good." Haven't touched it since then, though. Maybe that's why I haven't taken it too seriously as of late. Hm.

daihard · 08-24-2007, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by jiml8

Never heard of Visual Basic? Granted that it isn't more than passingly related to the original Basic, it still carries the name.

To me, BASIC and Visual Basic are two different languages.

My vote goes to C, though I am gradually finding Python to be a very good language as well.

MensaWater · 08-24-2007, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by jhwilliams

Oh - haha. That one slipped right by me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...hp&redirect=no

That'th right I'm a thtealth pothter...

I think the person that created the word lisp was a sadist - imagine describing people with a word they themselves can't say.

No one mentioned Cobol yet.

I agree omitting perl was a big miss though I doubt I'd jail anyone for it.