pvones wrote:

The language itself is not that important. You could easily switch between lets say C# and VB.NET because the 90% of knowledge you need to learn are the .NET Framework libraries and CLR essentials.

Henry Troup wrote:

functional programming

Henry Troup wrote:

Well.... if your code doesn't take advantage of the framework libraries, you're writing too much and it's suboptimal.

Henry Troup wrote:

If you organize your data so that you can call the framework's binary search, which is that?

Henry Troup wrote:

And, when frameworks provide decent rule engines, I'll use them, too.

ely_bob wrote:

C# because I don't ever have to use the command line compiler interface

mike.strobel wrote:

I reserve the right to refuse to work with a language again

Henry Troup wrote:

Reading Perl is hard; writing it is easy

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Accumulate and format the foobar table data

use warnings;
use strict;
use 5.6;

my $tot = 0;

while (<> ) {
   s/^\s+//s;
   next if /^#/;
   s/\s+\z//s;
   while (/\s\\\z/ and defined(my $cont = <> )) {
      $cont =~ s/^\s+//s;
      next if $cont =~ /^#/;
      $cont =~ s/\s+\z//s;
      s/\s*\\\z/\n                      $cont/s;
   }
   s/\s*\\?\z//s;
   next if /^\s*\z/s;

   if (/^(\S+)\s+([-+]?\d+)\s+(.*)\z/s) {
      $tot += $2;
      printf "\%-10s \%10d \%s\n", $1, $tot, $3;
   } else {
      print STDERR "Unknown line ",$ARGV,"(",$.,"): '",$_,"'\n";
   }
}

mike.strobel wrote:

I avoid [...] Java like the plague

Blasphemy !