What is the best Programming Languange

[veresdave]

(05-30-2012 11:03 PM)wickedcool Wrote:  

(05-30-2012 10:53 PM)veresdave Wrote:  Novadays everybody says that C++ is the best, and I absolutely agree with that, so C++, and for web programming the PHP and MySQL is really important.

You said it this the keys to success!!

Yes, I think But a good programmer have to try out more programming languages. Maybe you won't learn all of them, but when I boring I try out some new thing, and who knows, maybe this knowledge will be good later

[kovacsakos]

I like web programming, so PHP and HTML.

[deadmau5]

Again there is no besy, its a good language just if we are good with ( not the best ), well c, c#, html, python, php, sql of course php.

[guind]

i think assembly is the best from all programming language. what assembly can't do? *just my opinion. vb6 is so old. now vb.net

[f8ll]

(05-30-2012 09:11 PM)kiwiboom Wrote:  There is no 'best' programming language. There are many different languages, but you use each one of those for other things. You don't use PHP to make desktop applications for example.

I do have a favorite though. If you are new to programming you should and MUST check out Python. It's incredibly flexible and the syntax is really easy and nice to read. I also like Ruby (on Rails), C/C++/Obj-C, PHP and of course Python.

Oh and a little sidenote: HTML and CSS aren't even programming languages. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a markup language and CSS is just a stylesheet.

And please, don't develop in Visual Basic, just don't.

I have to second everything kiwiboom says (though I would recommend Ruby over Python, but maybe I'm just lazy). You use the right programming language for the job. There are of course overlaps in programming languages, in which case you just use what you prefer.

If you are serious about programming, don't use VB. It's a programming language designed for people who can't program.

(05-30-2012 10:53 PM)veresdave Wrote:  Novadays everybody says that C++ is the best, and I absolutely agree with that, so C++, and for web programming the PHP and MySQL is really important.

That's not what I hear at all. Lots of people say C++ sucks. Rob Pike, Linus Torvalds, and many other great/famous software engineers/programmers think C++ is terrible. On the other hand, lots of great/famous software engineers/programmers think C++ is great. (I more or less belong to the former group)

(05-31-2012 02:15 AM)guind Wrote:  i think assembly is the best from all programming language. what assembly can't do? *just my opinion. vb6 is so old. now vb.net

LOL assembly is even older than VB. Try creating a large software project in assembly and still tell me its the best. It may have the best performance/use the least amount of resources, but you'll probably have driven yourself insane by the end of it.

[aatish910]

But, there are some areas where assembly language is vital. Think of a boot loader: you either have to code in assemby or native machine language.

I still prefer Python over Ruby. Many Ruby codes need specific ruby versions and maintaining them is harder without rbenv or rvm. I had very hard time trying to run Jekyll. Most of the Python programs are designed in such a way that they specify "at least" requirement not like Ruby programs that define "exact" requirement.

[f8ll]

Actually you don't have to write a bootloader in assembly. Generally you do because of space and memory restrictions. It would be pretty hard to do it in C or something similar, or you would have to do what Grub does - basically write a boot loader that boots into the bootloader.

Don't get me wrong though, I like assembly. For small microcontroller programs and such, I prefer asm since you know exactly what its doing and you don't waste any processing cycles. It's a PITA for large projects imo.

Python is definitely more stable than Ruby, but that is partly because its older. There are still many changes happening in Ruby between versions. Python is definitely a good language and has slightly better performance than Ruby (I hear the internals of Ruby are terrible, I don't know how true that is however). I only prefer Ruby to Python because it lets me be really lazy with syntax and such.

[Robert1995]

It depends what you need the program to do, and in what environment.

C/C++ are the most widely supported languages in terms of different machines. Linux/Windows both have C/C++ support assuming they're compiled for the right environment.

ASP/PHP are very powerful server scripting languages. PHP is open source, ASP is microsoft. I prefer PHP because of it's open community support and awesome open source software that's developed with it.

Various other languages such as Python, Java, Ruby all have their own unique features, it really depends what you want to program.
You can't program a Windows Form application in PHP for example. But you can use C++/C#/VB/Java/Python.

[Fadnincx]

My previous speakers say anything. There is no best programming language! It depends what you want to program and what enviroment you have. Each language has pros and cons.

[kadaradam]

I think it's php,css,javascript!