Personally I like English, but your writing script matters too. I enjoy using Elian Script.

_nix wrote:

Personally I like English, but your writing script matters too. I enjoy using Elian Script.

programming language

INTERCAL.

Wettining wrote:

INTERCAL.

@Wettining isn't being serious.

I do most of my programming in Oracle SQL

Python and JavaScript.

console.log("Hello world!");

print("Hello world!")

System.out.println("Hello world!");

Ztianyang wrote:

Python and JavaScript.

I just asked for one

Depends what you want to do…

ScratchDiogoh wrote:

_nix wrote:

Personally I like English, but your writing script matters too. I enjoy using Elian Script.

programming language

Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean anything by it.

Scratch is a pretty cool programming language, honestly. Usually if I have an idea that I know could work well with Scratch – e.g. it has a lot of sprites, not a lot of automatically-generated graphics, etc – I'll try it with Scratch. Otherwise I prefer JavaScript because it's just the language I'm most comfortable with, since I've used it a lot.

Personally I think there's no best overall programming language; it's better to find the right tool for the job - which can vary a lot. And even then, that decision can depend a lot on what programming language you or your team is comfortable with!

_nix wrote:

ScratchDiogoh wrote:

_nix wrote:

Personally I like English, but your writing script matters too. I enjoy using Elian Script.

programming language

Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean anything by it.

Scratch is a pretty cool programming language, honestly. Usually if I have an idea that I know could work well with Scratch – e.g. it has a lot of sprites, not a lot of automatically-generated graphics, etc – I'll try it with Scratch. Otherwise I prefer JavaScript because it's just the language I'm most comfortable with, since I've used it a lot.

Personally I think there's no best overall programming language; it's better to find the right tool for the job - which can vary a lot. And even then, that decision can depend a lot on what programming language you or your team is comfortable with!

I would like to create games

ScratchDiogoh wrote:

I would like to create games

Again, depends what sort of games…

(I mean, there are engines out there which make it relatively easy to develop certain types of game – so the answer may be determined, or at least constrained to some degree, by the most appropriate engine(s) for the game(s) you want to create.)


OK, to elaborate further (I haven't been that helpful so far, have I…), I really don't think it's a good idea to learn any particular programming language.

Rather, get some basic experience of using a bunch of programming languages, and become familiar with the common concepts behind them, as well as the differences.

That will serve you much better in the long-run than concentrating on a specific language, since you'll find you can take what you know and apply it to pretty much any language you come across – the pointless arguments over strengths and weaknesses of specific languages will then become effectively irrelevant, ‘cos you’ll be able to just work with what you've got, and find your way through anything that you want to do.

TheLogFather wrote:

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for C++

As posted above, I think it's a matter of what fits your needs. It's like a set of keys: each keyhole needs a different key.

Incidentally, and half-offtopic, I'm currently doing a job that needs C, and any help would be appreciated. Forum link in my sig.

Html, cause you can create web pages and trick people into thinking the Internet is broken.

Python.

Although I'm kinda biased towards it because it's the only language I (somewhat) know.

To be honest, probably C or C++

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I use C++ despite all the serious problems it has… I have spent quite a bit of time debugging really strange errors, sometimes which just result from something as simple as forgetting a return statement. (always make sure your compiler errors on missing returns!)

Rust looks promising, but I don't really enjoy using it. C FFI is a real pain, especially when compared to C++, and in general it seems like there are still quite a few problems that the Rust team has to work out. (everybody says cargo is really great, but I had a *harder* time getting SDL2 to work properly in Rust than in C++….)

I do think C++ isn't really powerful enough–better metaprogramming would be really nice, as something I would like to do that isn't really possible in C++ is to quickly create structures of data that have a bunch of different keys, while also being able to process the data that goes in that structure without doing so manually. This isn't really something that C++ can do without a whole lot of boilerplate.

In any case, this post doesn't exactly answer the question – but if you have goals similar to mine (writing graphical applications, not anything like web-servers, etc…) I think C++ is pretty usable. Qt is pretty neat for creating most kinds of applications, and SDL2 + OpenGL is good for creating games if you want to do a lot of the stuff from the ground up.

Sadly Qt does not exactly suit my needs, as I want better touch support than it can provide, but it is a pretty good library nonetheless.

For game making you can learn Lua since it's a very popular scripting language for many game engines.

Java

I know only HTML, CSS, and Scratch, but an official (or whatever) language I like CSS since it's very customizable, but I'm learning JS, so maybe my answer will change…