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Programming => General Programming => Topic started by: iago on March 04, 2003, 03:00 PM

Title: Programming Languages
Post by: iago on March 04, 2003, 03:00 PM
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Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: Banana fanna fo fanna on March 04, 2003, 03:59 PM
Forgot:
Python
Lisp/Variants
Delphi
Assembler
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: Eibro on March 04, 2003, 06:28 PM
QuoteForgot:
Python
Lisp/Variants
Delphi
Assembler
Plus about a billion others
Notice the "other" option near the end of the poll.
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: Etheran on March 04, 2003, 07:15 PM
My favorite programming language would have to be other.  Very powerful language it is indeed.  ;D
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: pileofcrap on March 04, 2003, 09:32 PM
php and cgi and javascript arent really programming languages. They are web languages.
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: iago on March 05, 2003, 05:35 AM
Oops, missed assembly.  It's added now :)
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: iago on March 05, 2003, 08:21 AM
Quotephp and cgi and javascript arent really programming languages. They are web languages.

It doesn't matter.  I never actually SAID cgi, but I've argued before that if php and perl don't count as real languages, neither does vb.
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: Arta on March 05, 2003, 11:27 AM
You should put Delphi and other variants of Pascal up there.
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: l)ragon on March 05, 2003, 12:11 PM
Quotephp and cgi and javascript arent really programming languages. They are web languages.

That explains why my irc client is written in php 8\
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: Grok on March 05, 2003, 12:34 PM
QuoteIt doesn't matter.  I never actually SAID cgi, but I've argued before that if php and perl don't count as real languages, neither does vb.

You'd be wrong.
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: iago on March 05, 2003, 02:21 PM
Well, it's interpreted..

It doesn't matter, though! :P
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: Banana fanna fo fanna on March 05, 2003, 04:27 PM
I consider scripting languages as languages without your average data structures already implemented, which means VB is a scripting language.
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: iago on March 05, 2003, 04:46 PM
Well, javascript has data structures, so your definition must be wrong! :P
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: Banana fanna fo fanna on March 05, 2003, 04:55 PM
Hashtable? B-tree?
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: Eibro on March 05, 2003, 07:10 PM
Okay so Assembler isn't a programming language?
You can get into a huge debate, arguing whether languages are 'scripting', 'programming', 'interpreted' etc. But it's just stupid semantics.
Title: Re: Programming Languages
Post by: iago on March 06, 2003, 05:46 AM
It's like saying that Chinese isn't a language because it uses different letters and grammar constructs.  In the end, they are all languages, just with different properties and whatnot.


And yes, you can you B-Trees and stuff like that in assembly, it's just a lot more difficult.  You can also use them in VB, I'm sure, it would just be difficult :P