Programming Language of the Year

patricks · 01-18-2011, 08:09 PM

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I want to know why nobody is interested to program in java with linux ???

I am a Java engineer and I prefer to work in Linux. I do have worries now that Evil Oracle has bought Sun. It's got me curious about gcj.

paulsm4 · 01-18-2011, 08:57 PM

Hi -

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I do have worries now that Evil Oracle has bought Sun. It's got me curious about gcj.

Those worries are well-founded

But if portability is a concern ... or if you're programming in Android ... or if you simply want a "standard" Java without any "quirks"

... then I would strongly urge you to avoid GJC, and stick with Sun Java.

IMHO...

eveningsky339 · 01-18-2011, 09:21 PM

Python is great, but C gets my vote. Can't beat the original.

RudraB · 01-19-2011, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by danos_p

Well, there are some people still using Fortran, IMHO the grandfather of all compiled languages.

granfather, but still robust, young and at pink of its health. check this:
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ant...ng-statistics/

corp769 · 01-19-2011, 05:30 PM

Perl got my vote. Technically, a tie between perl and C.

portamenteff · 01-20-2011, 01:08 AM

Had to vote COBOL. hehe. Those were good times.

danos_p · 01-20-2011, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by advanced

granfather, but still robust, young and at pink of its health. check this:
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ant...ng-statistics/

Thanks for the link. I used Fortran for simulation of laser chamber a long time ago.

prodev05 · 01-21-2011, 05:40 AM

C, python

savotije · 01-21-2011, 07:59 PM

I use many..
C++

z1p · 01-21-2011, 09:19 PM

Voted Java, though C is where my heart lies ;^) Which is what I'd have to pick for the all time programming language.

tallship · 01-22-2011, 02:48 PM

I see nothing so far about Go (or is that Go! ??? I just can't keep the two straight).

Anyway, It's championed by Google, and Ken was one of it's major players wrt to its creation - and it is indeed in the list (Who are those guys that are picking C# anyway???).

I would pick C, but Ruby is comin' on like gangbusters so I'm givin' it my vote.

Besides, C will always be Mom

tallship · 01-22-2011, 02:59 PM

And why is Perl and PHP There when the sh variants (sh/bash/ash/dash/ksh/tksh/zsh) and Tcl aren't?

Don't get me wrong, I believe Perl and PHP should be there, but I would expect Tcl and Bash to be too, all things considered

jmc1987 · 01-22-2011, 03:25 PM

I voted c++. I think C just has some non sence in it that is where c++ fixed it imo and c# I dont' think I really like much of MS projects even though I haven't tried it. But What I do like about c++ or c based language once you learn that then learning stuff like python and perl are much easier. So I guess I'll prolly wait till AT&T labs release a new c version since they seem pretty good at it.

jeremy · 01-23-2011, 10:46 AM

I've added Tcl. There are enough shell variants that we've decided not to add any to this category. There used to be a Shell of the Year category, but it was removed due to lack of participation. If there's sufficient demand it's possible we'd bring it back.

--jeremy

Kenny_Strawn · 01-23-2011, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by jeremy

I've added Tcl. There are enough shell variants that we've decided not to add any to this category. There used to be a Shell of the Year category, but it was removed due to lack of participation. If there's sufficient demand it's possible we'd bring it back.

--jeremy

How come you still haven't added Vala yet?

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And I still don't see Tcl in the poll at all.