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I feel like that about Smalltalk - the beauty of simplicity.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The parentheses tend to disappear in your mind's eye after a while though - same with curly brackets in C based languages
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Even with the freedom of choosing the problem, it is pretty hard to pick any single language as favourite.
C# is hands down the best language of these that I have used.
C++ ... well its C++
And ActionScript 3 is what I have been using mostly for last couple of years, it feels like home 
In the end I choose other in the survey above for AS3.
Good Day 
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I've used (or at least dabbled in) most of these languages, and I vastly prefer C# to all of them.
I remember when .Net came out, I laughed at MS's obvious attempt at copying Java. Then it evolved. MS has made a lot of mistakes but C# isn't one of them, it's come a long way from its copycat roots to become an excellent language in its own right.
As a web programmer, I'm pretty much in love with C# and the .Net framework. There seems to be a perception that PHP/Ruby/Python/etc. are superior because that's what a lot of S.V. start-ups use, but I think that start-ups use them mainly because they are free and open source.
When you combine C# with the .Net framework and Visual Studio and SQL server, I think that you get the best web development platform ever. Things like RoR and MySQL look like children's toys by comparison.
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Who doesn't love C#?
C# has the best methods and programming qualities in itself as its base. The .NET Framework works like a charm, and saves us from hard coding anything. Most of the functions are already built-in to the framework, so we just have to write a single line or two and the framework handles the remaining thing.
Exactly, PHP and other programming languages don't stand a chance infront of C# and MySQL doesn't stand a chance while working with SQL Server.
I am a web and a software developer, I use C# in both environments and love it. I do use Java for Android development, but I still find C# more better and a nice language.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I've dabbled with various languages from Basic, C, C++, Perl, Python etc. it took me a while to appreciate C# but now, 8 years down the road, it is the language I reach for first.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I guess I'm going to be the first one to say, that's just nonsense. You've just given your opinion with no explanation as to why its better. The fact is many known organizations use a form of MySQL and many popular sites are developed using php/RoR.
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It's just hype he's spouting. It's how the coding vets can spot a rookie.
Jeremy Falcon
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No, it's an opinion formed over 15 years of using various technologies. It's an opinion, in a thread about an opinion poll.
Who do you think you are to come in here and start spamming insults?
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StatementTerminator wrote: No, it's an opinion formed over 15 years of using various technologies. It's an opinion, in a thread about an opinion poll.
I've still been doing this longer than you kiddo. What you're spouting off is childish hooplah tantamount to someone who doesn't even know what they are talking about so they offset that by religious-type speak without anything concrete. And 15 years experience doesn't mean much if you don't use those 15 years wisely.
StatementTerminator wrote: Who do you think you are to come in here and start spamming insults?
Thanks for proving my point.
Jeremy Falcon
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Reported. If you've been doing this longer than I have, then you should be old enough to know better than to behave like this. You also ought to be able to understand the difference between insulting a technology and insulting a person.
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StatementTerminator wrote: Reported. If you've been doing this longer than I have, then you should be old enough to know better than to behave like this. You also ought to be able to understand the difference between insulting a technology and insulting a person.
Well aren't we just super sensitive. That's cute. In a nutshell, you can't handle what you dish out. You should know better, but hey you apparently don't.
Jeremy Falcon
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And the fact of the matter is you got way too upset over me calling you a rookie. A non-rookie would've defended their point with substance. But no, you chose to flip out. And now you're upset with me because I returned the favor. Like I said, you dish it but you can't take it.
Jeremy Falcon
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And this reply is just to see if a third one pisses you off even more.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm not flipping out (yet), but you are and have been. This is reaching the level of harassment.
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This thread is about stating opinions, not writing dissertations. I don't owe you any explanations, although I already said why I think MySQL/PHP/RoR are popular.
Sorry if my opinion is different from yours, but why don't you just state yours instead of attacking mine?
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StatementTerminator wrote: Sorry if my opinion is different from yours, but why don't you just state yours instead of attacking mine?
You attacked the MySQL camp. If you can't take the heat then stop dishing it out.
Jeremy Falcon
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StatementTerminator wrote: Sorry if my opinion is different from yours, but why don't you just state yours instead of attacking mine?
I'll even quote it...
Quote: Things like RoR and MySQL look like children's toys by comparison.
Nice blanket statement there. Rookies use blanket statements like that.
Jeremy Falcon
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Terminator, I only replied because you made the "children's toy" comment. These technologies are not children's toys, they're big boys toys for developers who really know how to use them properly.
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Actually, what I said was they are like children's toys by comparison. I could list some reasons why I think SQL Server is superior to MySQL, but what's the point? It would just start a flame war.
Saying something mildly insulting about a technology is not a personal attack on everyone who uses that technology, and it doesn't justify personal attacks in response.
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Sounds like MS paid you off.
Jeremy Falcon
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To which I will probably reply: "Objective? C".
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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Coming from Objective-C to Xamarin/C#, I feel the opposite. With embedded C background, Objective-C was much easier for me to get used to than C#, which I dislike with a passion. And the Xamarin IDE... 
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