Best Language
October 29th, 2002 by HenWhat’s the best language you ever learnt or used? The one that satisified you the most both in terms of its success at reaching your solution and at the feeling of control and beauty?
Only one that even gets on the board for me is the language of Regular Expressions. The best computing language around. Friedl’s book was a wonder-tome, and I’m still debating over whether I should upgrade. Or maybe I just demand it be on the next company book order.
November 1st, 2002 at 8:08 am
Hmm, I find this a difficult question. I’m a java coder + the limitations are regularly painful. It’s normally difficult to express something with beauty and simplicity. Don’t get me started on the multifarious libraries that over-complicate what ought to be simple tasks.
I’m not a scheme coder, but having read SICP a few times I like it intellectually. It’s so clean and simple, but also so flexible and powerful. But as I said, I’ve never used it in anger.
C (once you learn to tie knots other than a noose) is fairly loverly. Again it’s simple and flexible. I’ve used it in a little anger at uni and although it’s hard to begin with, it soon grows on you.
C++ is a muckup that made C much harder to understand and gained little with the introduction on near-OO.