Okay, so I'm trying to get back into programming, and I've been working with C++ for the past few weeks, and it's fine and whatever, but I might want to go with something that's more current. I've read a lot of things lately saying that it's really out of date, and if that's true, I guess I'd like to try something newer out. This isn't for a job, it isn't for anything in particular, it's just for dicking around because I feel like doing it.

Any suggestions? What do you use at work, for school, for fun, or whatever?

10/24/2007 5:52:28 PM

I do almost everything in a strange combination of MATLAB, Fortran, and perl. I do mostly scripting; not a lot of what anyone would call application development.

10/24/2007 5:54:56 PM

Oh, and it might help to mention that I've worked with C, C++, Java, perl, php, and a little of Objective-C. I have the most experience with C++ and Java but haven't done much of anything in the past 5 years.

10/24/2007 5:57:50 PM

C & C#

C# is a lot easier than dealing with C++ & MFC.

10/24/2007 6:08:07 PM

Java

it's easy, and fun to make programs that will do calculations for you, but that's about it, nothin too useful imo.

10/24/2007 6:13:02 PM

well sure. if you programming experience is limited to csc courses

10/24/2007 6:20:15 PM

English

10/24/2007 6:24:52 PM

ruby on rails

10/24/2007 6:32:52 PM

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"well sure. if you programming experience is limited to csc courses "

ahaha yea, you're right.

AP Computer Science A.


my bro got one of those XBOX Live 3 month membership cards a couple months ago, and in his excitement he scraped the serial number off the back really hard and a few of the numbers becase illegible. utilizing my programming skill, i wrote a program that would come up with every possible combination of letters/numbers that the serial number could be...... my 23rd result gave me the real serial number, and i felt like i was the fuckin man.

10/24/2007 6:35:53 PM

English

10/24/2007 6:38:40 PM

Python is a great language for scripting

[Edited on October 24, 2007 at 6:51 PM. Reason : ]

10/24/2007 6:49:55 PM

I use Java and it works well enough for me.

If you're doing multiplatform stuff, go with java. If you're doing windows stuff go with c# or any of the other .net languages.

10/24/2007 6:51:14 PM

Right now? For work i code in

Javascript + taglibs/struts + a tiny bit of JSP
Java
C++ (brand new for me, I know SOME C already but not C++ specific things)
SQL and the SPL for Informix.
Tiny bit of XML

The personal projects I havent touched in a few months are (and i should be getting back into)
PHP
SQL
HTML/CSS
Tiny bit of XML/Javascript (ala AJAX etc)


Languages I never want to see again (but probably will someday):
Python
PERL


Needless to say I'm more web application oriented these days or cross-platform and have never had to do TOO much OS/Socket coding.

WHat you should pick should be determined by what you want to do - not just what's the newest thing ever.
Crossplatform vs. not
Webbased vs. not
Do you have to interact with a database (easier in some things than other), do you have to deal with a lot of complex datastructures (again same thing).


To screw with yourself - I've only played with it once but the language called brainfuck i believe. Worthless for "real" development, but it sure as hell will make you think! (low level stuff here, be forewarned all you CS people who dont know what a register shift is).

10/24/2007 7:13:51 PM

aww cmon perl is good fun

[Edited on October 24, 2007 at 7:19 PM. Reason : and it's not PERL]

10/24/2007 7:18:12 PM

perl is fun.

10/24/2007 8:21:24 PM

lately?/

Mostly Java, Ruby and Python

btw Spring 2.5 RC1 released today

10/24/2007 9:33:56 PM

lisp, bitches.

also perl and tcl

10/24/2007 9:55:01 PM

i could replace you with 3 lines of perl

10/24/2007 11:07:19 PM

I love java but unfortunately don't have occasion to use it as much as I would like

c/c++ mostly

10/24/2007 11:11:49 PM

4tran 4 life

10/24/2007 11:26:40 PM

i've used mostly php for the last 4 years, but i just took a job with a .net shop so i am using c# now

10/24/2007 11:53:06 PM

matlab is the correct answer to everything.

10/25/2007 12:25:16 AM

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"i could replace you with 3 lines of perl"

hahah

10/25/2007 8:54:29 AM

at the moment I'm working with C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C++, JavaScript, and Python

XML is *NOT* a programming language, it is a markup language for structured data, technologies such as AJAX and SOAP use XML to communicate, but XML is not a programming language

10/25/2007 9:54:51 AM

java, python, and C are the languages I like the best. you can do some really awesome stuff in python, a lot more than console scripting. the gui library for it is pretty badass.

a friend of mine wrote this tool for dsm ecu rom editting in all python

10/25/2007 10:40:49 AM

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"XML is *NOT* a programming language, it is a markup language for structured data, technologies such as AJAX and SOAP use XML to communicate, but XML is not a programming language"

ladywolf said she codes in XML, which is not incorrect since a markup language is code. She didn't call it a programming language.


I've always been a fan of legacy VB and FORTRAN. Lightweight applications + ease of development.

I've played around with VB.NET, C, Perl, php, Javascript, VCL/DCL (scripting language for old Digital terminals), and many other things, but never had the time to develop any real skill.

10/25/2007 10:49:27 AM

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"all you CS people"

Assembly with Lasher FTW

10/25/2007 11:08:47 AM

my dick is bigger than yours because i program in binary

10/25/2007 11:20:55 AM

^^ lasher was a dick...i hated that man

10/25/2007 11:30:38 AM

yeah, he was an arrogant jerk. i never understood why so many people liked him

10/25/2007 11:32:40 AM

Labview FTW

Flame on, But on one particular NGC prototypes the radar guided IR camera's were definitely written in labview... which also allowed them to be controlled with an XBOX 360 controller... and all worked flawlessly over TCP/IP with SQL data dumps recording important info... it's not production level stuff, but hell if you can't write an entire interface in 1/10th the time you would need to make the full system software work. I successfully wrote several interfaces within 30minutes b/c labview is so easy to use once you get over the idea that you have to write things line by line and learn what the little box's do and what's available

in the real world I extensively used Labview, VHDL, PERL, then a little C, Verilog, TCL, and Python, I'm a(was/will be) hardware engineer though... and learning/knowing java, and data structures helped tremendously when dealing with VHDL functions and generics… b/c understanding object orientated programming is very important.

10/25/2007 4:12:12 PM

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"i could replace you with 3 lines of perl"

i could replace you with one list

10/25/2007 8:23:10 PM

@ Work: Delphi 5 & 2005, Python, C
Fun: Java & C

10/25/2007 8:45:08 PM

fortran

10/25/2007 9:41:44 PM

obfuscated c


nah j/k. c# and c++

10/27/2007 2:17:04 AM

For work we had been doing almost exclusively C++/MFC projects but I recently made the switch to C# and have never looked back. The last year most of my projects have been .NET Compact Framework which can be frustrating but its still neat.

10/27/2007 11:30:44 AM

VBSCRIPT!!

10/27/2007 11:33:20 AM

lasher was my favorite CSC professor hands down. except Michael Lake, but he only taught here one semester. Hell yes he's arrogant, not everyone is humble pie. He still knows his shit and he's there to help the people that want to be helped.


Oh, also, I'm now officially a UX Designer for Visual Studio Team System. MAN its good. Granted what I'm working on probably won't get released for a whiiiile, but it almost makes me want to do development again.

[Edited on October 27, 2007 at 1:36 PM. Reason : .]

10/27/2007 1:35:15 PM

reminds of someone's post about vbasic and "maek tww for me"

bwahaha wish I could find it

10/27/2007 1:45:22 PM

^^ Sounds like Dr. Doster in the NE department to me.

10/27/2007 2:24:29 PM

^ Doster is my graduate advisor

10/28/2007 4:17:23 AM

I was always kind of partial to Jo Perry, that sexy sex-pot

10/28/2007 7:31:04 AM

The better question is, how many fake ISAs did you learn here at State?

LC-3, and M16C might as well be fake, I'm not going to buy another M16C.

10/28/2007 3:51:16 PM

I PROGRAM IN THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE

10/28/2007 3:52:12 PM

I program in ABAP, Java and C# for my job. I enjoy ABAP a lot more than I thought I would. Does anyone else use it?

10/28/2007 9:00:40 PM

PHP, CSS, actionscript 2.0/3.0 Do a lot of work with Ajax...

10/28/2007 9:09:12 PM

Recently it's been php, vbscript, and vb

10/28/2007 9:23:56 PM

In the past year, I've done work in (in order of the amount of time spent mucking around in it):

SAS, Java, C, SAS SCL, PHP, Javascript ECMAScript, PL*SQL, ksh, and XSLT.

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"XML is *NOT* a programming language, it is a markup language for structured data, technologies such as AJAX and SOAP use XML to communicate, but XML is not a programming language"

XSLT is! XSLT is turing complete!

[Edited on October 28, 2007 at 9:45 PM. Reason : ECMAScript]

10/28/2007 9:44:04 PM

get back to the basics: go binary

10/29/2007 12:57:43 PM

Fortran FTW

10/30/2007 12:12:07 AM