apollo2011 Posted May 7, 2003 Share Posted May 7, 2003 Mines Visual Basic and HTML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BPHgravity Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 I prefer the English language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollo2011 Posted May 8, 2003 Author Share Posted May 8, 2003 Originally posted by BPHgravity I prefer the English language. Even the English language has its pitfalls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 I like VB, but sometimes its hideously slow compared to C / C++. Especially in my pi calculator. The application in C calculates about twice to three times as fast as my visual basic application. Of course, BASIC being the only language I know well, I must say its my favorite language Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 PHPPHPPHP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted May 8, 2003 Share Posted May 8, 2003 Esperanto, for a more obscure version of the joke that's already been made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 Originally posted by blike Of course, BASIC being the only language I know well, I must say its my favorite language Mallard Basic on the Amstrad PCW series - best language EVER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollo2011 Posted May 9, 2003 Author Share Posted May 9, 2003 Ilearned QBASIC from Mallard's BASIC BASIC Tutorial. It was really easy to un derstand and do. I recommend it to anybody who wants to learn. You can get it at www.qbasic.com and then click on "Tutorials" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phubuh Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 I won't vote, since O'Caml isn't an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThEmAdHaTtEr Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 VB6 all the way. its easy, and you can make pretty much anything from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SyntaXVB5 Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 My favorite language is C, as C produces high-performance code with high-level behavior. Having access to all of the hardware-related modules is also a plus for me. I recommend Visual Basic if you're doing windows based applications, even though I personally don't like it's high-level handling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdjon Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 It all depends on what I'm doing... For scientific code that runs through huge arrays or that I'm going to parallelise: Fortran 90 For fast code, system drivers, or code that my be seen outside the scientific community: C/C++ If I have to use a GUI or it needs to run on various machines: Java Lots of text procesing: Perl Simple number-crunching: VBA in Excel Webpages: PHP It definitely helps knowing a lot of languages In my opinion a programming language is like a tool. You do not use a screwdriver to hammer in a nail, unless you don't have a hammer. Similarly, you don't use Fortran for fancy windows-type software and you don't use perl to write fast software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SyntaXVB5 Posted June 21, 2003 Share Posted June 21, 2003 So you're informed, Fortran-90 produces the same machine-level code as C, and pascal. So theres no need to only use it for scientific reasons. It is also a good system-design language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudde Posted June 21, 2003 Share Posted June 21, 2003 HTML baby...heh heh heh:cool: although I do hope one day to know more than just that;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 21, 2003 Share Posted June 21, 2003 Originally posted by Dudde HTML baby...heh heh heh:cool: although I do hope one day to know more than just that;) Learn CSS (easy), SQl (easy) and PHP (always more to learn) to go with your HTML and you'll be unstoppable. Unstoppable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudde Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 any links or tips or advice or teachings would be greatly appreciated in any of those areas;) I'm a good learner I just haven't had the opportunity yet:-p stupid school... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 http://www.glish.com/css/ is good for CSS by example, http://www.phpbuilder.com looks daunting but it's the best resource I've used for PHP and SQL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudde Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 hey thanks! I'll get into learning that right away;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syntax Posted July 1, 2003 Share Posted July 1, 2003 Sayonora is referring more to web-based programming. Although used with GTK, PHP can be used to write windows applications (although I dont recommend it). If you're writing web apps, PHP/MySQL, XML, and CSS are all good to learn (as well as a understanding of HTML). Stay away from things like ASP, and Microsoft SQL as they'll run your pockets for alot of money, for just learning. PHP and MySQL are all free and open source, so they can be learned for nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted July 1, 2003 Share Posted July 1, 2003 ASP makes me cringe. It is ugly and unnecessarily complex. Plus you pretty much have to run it under a M$ server, which is just not the way to go at all. I have heard of people using PHP as a "pure" programming language. It makes me laugh. What sort of apps have you seen it used for Syntax? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt_f13 Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 Im planning to make a 3D space shooter in VB based on the old west. Any pointers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor_9000 Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 hey now lets not go bashing asp. It hasn't cost me anything to learn other than setting up an NT based server. Besides it was very easy to make the jump from visual basic to asp. Nothing about it seems too unnecessarily complex. I think its a fine language Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 3D space shooter in VB based on the old west Old west space shooter? Sounds interesting. Good luck with the 3d engine in VB though. Usually 3d engines in BASIC are nice and slow :l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 English then Russian. for computers. I love the old BBC Micro BASIC after that Z80 machine code then the Motorola 68000 series ASM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt_f13 Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 Originally posted by blike Old west space shooter? Sounds interesting. Good luck with the 3d engine in VB though. Usually 3d engines in BASIC are nice and slow :l Tell me about it (here comes the website again ) http://www.djglacial.com/index2.html ^ Sprite based engine written in actionScript. It was fun to write but turning from 3D to 2D coordinates was rather emulated. Think cathode ray tube and grade 10 trigonometry. Edit - VB game was a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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