Which programming language

[leo-rcc]

Why is it that every time I open a Java program my heart sinks to my shoes, because I know it will be slow as shit?

Are you joking? :S

No unfortunately I am deadly serious. From the EU we get various Java based apps shoved down our throats and without fail they all perform like crap. The same is true when I need to use HP's Java based Jetadmin program. Just getting the screens to load can take up to 30 seconds.

[Tiberius]

I recommend Perl. Its the only language where you can write code and not be able to understand what the hell you just wrote, just that it works. Regular expressions.... mmmmmm, tasty.

All languages have regular expressions.

[Loki_999]

I recommend Perl. Its the only language where you can write code and not be able to understand what the hell you just wrote, just that it works. Regular expressions.... mmmmmm, tasty.

All languages have regular expressions.

Sure... but you have to admit that Perl regexps are in a world of their own.... admit it or burn!

[Tiberius]

How so? I've just googled some examples and it all looks the same to me. I thought REGEX was a standard...

[Autumnlicious]

I recommend Perl. Its the only language where you can write code and not be able to understand what the hell you just wrote, just that it works. Regular expressions.... mmmmmm, tasty.

All languages have regular expressions.

Sure... but you have to admit that Perl regexps are in a world of their own.... admit it or burn!

I thought the entire Perl language is one giant regex-like circle jerk.

[Meatball]

Most of my experience is in Java. I find myself most comfortable coding in Java as that's what they teach in for your intro year at my University. In second year they throw some C, C++, Ruby and some godawful assembly language I can't recall right now.

I found C and C++ to be cryptic and cumbersome compared to Java, but definitely usable. Ruby was nice but also strange in some ways. Assembly coding was a nightmare for me.

My professors always bashed Java but I honestly think it's great. I'm still pretty new at the game, but everything seems very logical in Java.

Unfortunately learning the basics on Java makes things like memory management and pointers a little trickier to learn as you haven't had any hands on experience with them.

One of the coolest things I've done in Ruby was create a multi-threaded linked list that accepted any class, and created sorted threads for each instance variable. It was done with some funky metaprogramming and was something I never even though was possible to program. Really opened my eyes to the possibilities of dynamic programming.

[Rob]

Java isn't just about cross platform engineering, please don't think that. It's a powerful language in its own right, and an increasingly popular one because of its error handling and general ease of use.

C++ is unusable in comparison IMO.

I OBJECT! C++ is an excellent language if you are of such competence as to not need the security blanket of java.

what could be confusing about this? :

Code:

#include <iostream>

class Tmp {
public:
    Tmp(void) {
        memcpy(this->_buf, "Hello Atheist Forums", 5);
    }
    char _buf[20];
};

int main(void) {
    const unsigned int buf_size = 21;
    char buf[buf_size];
    memset(buf, 0x00, buf_size);
    memcpy(buf, "Water world.", 13);

    new (buf) Tmp;
    std::cout << buf << '\n';
    return 0;
}

Points to whoever can tell me what what this will output without using a compiler.

[Tiberius]

Or as you would type in Java:

Code:

public class Tmp
{
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                System.out.println("Hello world.");
        }
}

[Rob]

... sure if you want to be boring about it.

[Autumnlicious]

And python:

Code:

print "Hello Atheists Forum!"