What's the best programming language?

[esran]

Please ask your friends to vote in this poll. I'm working on a research project, and I would like as many people as possible to vote. In fact, I'd like about 80 people to vote.

Thanks!!!

[jeremy1701]

C++ all the way. It's like C, only plus. [insert drum here]



What you should really do is a scripting poll.

PERL RULES!!!

Jeremy

[lordnothing]

C... Linux is written in it...

[Giro]

As you should know there is no best they all have there uses as said you would not write a kernel in perl but you would not write a contact form in C

[scientica]

As giro says, the best programming language depens on the problem to code/fix
but IMO, asm is the best, as you can do the most things with it (in theory everything you can do in higher level languages can in someway be done in asm (as it's translated or interpented to it (well acruallt, the bytes for which the asm is mnemonics for (prefix, opcodes, modr/m, sib, imm, etc))))

[esran]

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Poll Question

What's your favorite programming language?
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Sorry for the confusion

[danbo]

when you say best (favourite as you now mention) in what ways, i think this is an important piece of info that this poll neglects

i only am only good at Visual Basic so thats my answer... (i am between intermediate and advanced with it)

[esran]

I mean favorite for general purposes. Which one do you use the most often, and do you like it? For example, if you use C++ the most often and you like it alot, that would be your favorite language.

[jiff]

On a concrete point of view, it is difficult to say that C++ is a good programming language. It is really old and research in computer science made a lot of progress since C++. For example Java is much more secure and well designed than C++. But it has other drawbacks that make it not usable for all purpose (not efficient for example).

I know a lot of different language: C, C++, Java, Basic, Fortran, C#, OCaml, Haskell, and scripting languages (perl, python, bash...)... (which means that I wrote several thousand of lines with all of them) and my advice is the following:

If you are looking for a modern language, secure (very few bugs in your programs), very expressive and efficient, have a look at Objective Caml. We are using it for some of our projects and we are really happy with it, because programs are really easy to debug and quick to write. The language is really expressive. I am really impressed.

[techieMoe]

This is a very old thread and I see no reason to resurrect it. As has already been stated, different languages perform their best in different situations, and not any one language is the "best" for everything.