HI,
There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that language instead of the other.

In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better.

thanks a lot
bela

Chocolate is my favorite :-)

Nothing is better than chocolate.

LISP is better than nothing.

So LISP is better than chocolate.

Well what do you intent to do? I don't bother listing anything I know of if I don't know what is needed.
Such questions often lead to flamewars, or just bunches of opinions most of which are unqualified AFAIK.
I think that's why they joked like that in the first two posts.
But if you tell us under what circumstances (like, you want to study it over a longer or shorter term, you might want it to be used on Windows and Mac, is speed [=low ressource usage] an issue? ...) you would like to program, I think the community will give you some reasonable opinions.
Oh, and personal experience, capabilities and preferences play a role, too; so consider trying different languages.

Not a useful question; there are so many wildly different circumstances that there is not one language that is best for all of them.

If you try phrasing your question "which is the best for .... circumstance" you might get a useful answer (or you might get a flame war...difficult to say which).

The one that costs the least. You define what constitutes cost.
--- rod.

The OP wants us to list all circumstances and applicable languages in those cases I think.

jlinkels

google this question, u will get a lot of articles.
or have a talk with ur friends.
Nobody would input 100k chars here, i think.

If you are trying to pick programming language to learn, pick ANY language, and stop wasting time trying to find "the best". There is no "the best" language, and knowledge acquired in one language will help in learning other language later.

we cannot just pick ANY language. Imagine OP picks brainfuck for example, does it help at all? In any case, picking one from a few of the more popular ones may be more appropriate.

JAVA !!!




N.B: I am a Java/J2EE developer for the last 7 years now. So - Please bear with me if my opinion on this is a little skewed!

Java

Why: Well rounded language, allowing you to write applications from Cellphone devices to the web. Highly portable, easy to use, well written API, lots of amazing frameworks available such as Struts, Hibernate and Spring, several great IDE's such as Eclipse and Netbeans available, open source. Has been around for quite a long time now, so it is very mature as well. And, there is plenty of jobs available for EE developers these days.

You can't go wrong with Java on any level really. Both as a hobby or professionally.

This is ridiculous WRT any language, and specifically WRT Java.

FWIW Java is not as portable as its developers claimed it to be - on every platform things do (not) work slightly differently. Remember, bugs are everywhere.

Well, I've written lots and lots of code, and I've never, ever coded a bug. :>

Thank you for all same for those which amuse.
I have a long time used and taught the languages (C, C++, Java, php, Shell), so sometimes I asked myself the question: it would be better to fix itself on ONE language instead of several which do same thing?
a comparative study (serious, objective and recent) would be welcome or may be it already exists.

thanks
bela