Thread: What's your favourite language?

I'm curious.

I voted for C# (Cocoa) and BASIC, I HATE Java.

ain't Cocoa objective C ??

You are definitely missing some languages on there.

Ruby, Python, Lua, PHP... etc...

Cocoa is actually an API to access OS X systems. Objective-C is separate, but commonly used next to Python for programming on OS X.

You're missing tons of popular languages e.g. perl, python, php, ruby, tcl, awk, lisp and its many variants, Haskell, OCaml, Objective-C, various shells, etc. By the way, C# has nothing to do with Cocoa (NeXT's/Apple's API for Objective-C). The main implementation of C# is part of Microsoft's .NET environment. Also, markup languages don't really belong in the poll because they aren't comparable to programming languages; the former specify a format and the latter are a series of instructions.

P.S. Certain programming languages are better for certain tasks, but I tend to use Python for anything that doesn't require the executable to be an opaque binary (and security through obscurity isn't a great practice anyway). By the way, ninja9578, is there anything specific that you dislike about Java? And probably a better question, do you actually know the language well enough to pass judgment? I can think of many Java annoyances off the top of my head but none that don't apply to Objective-C/Cocoa.

I am pretty fluent in HTML and XHTML, and I am learning Javascript. I like Javascript more, you can do more with it

My favorite language is english. But its obviously not yours. See, because you never said you were talking about PROGRAMMING languages!

But being serious, I quite liked Haskell. Twas refreshing.

But for simplicities sake, I liked plain old C. Although I haven't had much experience with its variants.