what is your favorite programming language?

[vern]

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Java has been ported to pretty much every platform, so saying write once, run anywhere is true to Java more than any other language ... with perhaps Smalltalk the only real contender.

[softtouch]

Java is just one of the "trendy" OOP languages. Someone in the next few years will come up with a new trendy language, everyone will jump onto that bandwagon, thinking he cannot remain behind, and forgetting that most of the programmers in the world still type on their keyboard nice Cobol statement.

[ares623]

ActionScript 3 on AIR is slowly catching up on Java (on the write once, run anywhere thingy at least).. it still has a long way to go though..
not much love for AS3 here huh? hehe.

[eax]

Java is just one of the "trendy" OOP languages. Someone in the next few years will come up with a new trendy language, everyone will jump onto that bandwagon, thinking he cannot remain behind, and forgetting that most of the programmers in the world still type on their keyboard nice Cobol statement.

I think that is the programming evolution(Stroustrup: The Design and Evolution of C++).

[eax]

ActionScript 3 on AIR is slowly catching up on Java (on the write once, run anywhere thingy at least).. it still has a long way to go though..
not much love for AS3 here huh? hehe.

I don't know ActionScript and Air, but I think it is more on web development/applications. In Java, it can be a Desktop Application, Web Application, or both. If you compare it with Java, I think you are only comparing to the Web Application.

[ares623]

AIR is the runtime for desktop applications for AS3. You install/run apps built on AIR just like any application. It's cross-platform too. But i do agree that right now it's still very young on the desktop front.

[eax]

AIR is the runtime for desktop applications for AS3. You install/run apps built on AIR just like any application. It's cross-platform too. But i do agree that right now it's still very young on the desktop front.

Young pa kaayo. I think ang development gani sa Linux runtime maybe end of the year or first quarter of next year.

[crystaldots]

Me, C++, C#, Java

[Tin_Tin]

OT: daghana diay mga java programmers diri uy. . .

[jtpopol]

OT: daghana diay mga java programmers diri uy. . .

lol, doing only java leads to suffering.. right tool for the job, right?

mine is c/c++, java, php, ruby, c#, vb..

my full time job right now is doing ruby and ROR and i'm deep into lexical analysis and syntactic analysis.. but i'm language platform agnostic, design patterns and system designs subjects that interest me most..