Question

What is your favourite Programming Language??​

Answer 1

Answer:

Functional Programming Language...

Answer 2

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My favorite programming language is the one that is best suited to the task at hand.

• Way back in my mainframe days, I used IBM System/370 assembler language because that was the best choice for pretty much everything that I did.
• Also way back in my mainframe days, I used Snobol 4 when I was doing text manipulation (taking a bunch of text and transforming it in various ways).
• Going back to my mainframe days and continuing on through to about ten years ago, when I found myself involved with scientific computing I would use a variety of different languages if the goal was to solve a single problem once whereas I would use FORTRAN if the program would be run many times.
• If I find myself doing kernel hacking or other relatively low-level operating system programming on a Unix system then I use C.
• C++ would typically be my choice if I want software that will be used many times in a context where speed matters (except in the realm of scientific computing where the mindboggling variety of FORTRAN libraries generally wins the day).
• In recent years, I have found myself using Java quite a bit. This mostly started when I found myself in a research group where building moderately largish programs quickly was important and absolute performance didn’t matter all that much. I lean even more heavily towards Java these days because of the existence of the IntelliJ IDEA development environment.
• I’ve been retired for about a half dozen years and I find myself using Java for pretty much everything that I do because I get to use IntelliJ IDEA, I am very familiar with the Java programming language, it tends to be reasonably well suited to what I find myself doing, and I’m writing software as a hobby (i.e. my enjoyment is almost always the most important criteria for language selection). About the only other language that I use to any significant extent these days is C which is used for stuff that is going to make heavy use of Unix system calls and such (my primary desktop and my laptop are Macs although I have a Linux box and an OpenBSD box that I use from time to time). I only use MS Windows to play games on (what can I say - I’m a Unix geek).
• The notion of having a favorite programming language just feels a bit strange to me. 25 years ago, I would have refused to pick a favorite programming language because I really didn’t have one. These days, if pressed, I would probably say that Java is my favorite.

My personal opinion is that the notion of there being a “best” programming language in any even remotely universal sense is nonsensical.

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