How many Programming Languages do You work with?

Post by **diego** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:17 am

Hi fellow nerds,

just out of curiosity: I worked in a web-environment for years by now, starting out with Perl, switching over to PHP, adding some Oracle (blech) object-oriented DB-stuff, web-frontends and shit; for the more "hardcore"-stuff I used C++ and now, guess what?, people go crazy over Java (again).

My question is now: Should I really go Java? Is it still superuseful as it was back in the day (1997)? I dont have a problem learning new things, I find it exciting, but as time goes by, I am wondering - why does it have to be the newest or next-newest fad all the time? Can't we just be productive and work on what we got instead of switching and turning all the time?

Post by **Scourge** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:48 am

Switching around and learning new stuff makes you more versatile. Never messed around with Java though. Can't really say anything about it.

Post by **diego** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:08 pm

Hey Nerge,
thanks for your comment - You're right, but I always feel like I never get my feet into the "real dirt", so to say.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:57 pm

Take a look at websites like Monsterboard, half of the jobs offered are Java related.

Post by **Azer** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:08 am

Programming in C++ at my internship/job
Doing some PHP stuff at school

Going to learn Java next year

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:12 pm

At work I deal with VB.NET and C# (plus TSQL, HTML, and Javascript if you want to count those). On side projects I use PHP. At my last job I used Java and VB6. At home I play around with everything I can.

Post by **Dean McLean** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:48 pm

I've really only worked with Java, and a bit of C++, however, I think that Java is much smaller, compact, and safer. On the flipside, it is slower and gives you less control.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:50 pm

Safer, yes. It has fewer pitfalls for budding developers to walk into. But more compact? I still cry a little everytime I have to type out each and every method of an interface.

Post by **vegittoss15** » Sat May 05, 2007 12:37 am

C++, Java, some VB, C#, learning php right now, and idk if JS counts, also I've been attempting to learn linux kernel ASM for a bit now.

Post by **Dean McLean** » Sat May 05, 2007 12:52 am

Compact as in, garbage collection, no pointers involved, no other extras that aren't as necessary. I may be wrong, though, I don't know that much about C++. Also, (the program I use at least), lets you just hit "implement methods" if an interface is implemented, I don't think you have to type except to write it.

Post by **bitWISE** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:02 pm

Dean McLean wrote:Compact as in, garbage collection, no pointers involved, no other extras that aren't as necessary. I may be wrong, though, I don't know that much about C++. Also, (the program I use at least), lets you just hit "implement methods" if an interface is implemented, I don't think you have to type except to write it.

Visual Studio can do a lot of code generation but generated code is some of the nastiest stuff you can deal with. Granted, some things aren't so bad but when people use the WYSIWYG editor to configure data adapters and data sets I want to pull out my eyes with a fork.

Pointers are amazing tools when used properly so I tend to get annoyed with languages that put huge road blocks in front of them.

Post by **neh** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:01 pm

bitWISE wrote:
Dean McLean wrote:Compact as in, garbage collection, no pointers involved, no other extras that aren't as necessary. I may be wrong, though, I don't know that much about C++. Also, (the program I use at least), lets you just hit "implement methods" if an interface is implemented, I don't think you have to type except to write it.
Visual Studio can do a lot of code generation but generated code is some of the nastiest stuff you can deal with. Granted, some things aren't so bad but when people use the WYSIWYG editor to configure data adapters and data sets I want to pull out my eyes with a fork.

Pointers are amazing tools when used properly so I tend to get annoyed with languages that put huge road blocks in front of them.

most ides are packed with refactoring and stub gen short cuts - they mostly dont need instrumentation and the stubs they gen are fine

Post by **Dean McLean** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:03 pm

Hm, well I generally only use generated code to implement method interfaces, I don't like doing it with anything else. Also, I was using JBuilder (have to for school), which doesn't do much generation anyway.

Post by **Zimbo** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:21 am

I have been working with C for 7 years and it's the only programming language I really know.

Post by **Tyrone** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:23 pm

Aha.. i never use those things, i know nothing about it