Favorite programming language?

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Permalink Reply by Jeff on June 26, 2007 at 1:35pm

I haven't done any web development, so I don't know much about PHP. I guess so far my favorite has been Objective-C, primarily because it's what I'm used to. I think i'm going to start checking out RUBY.

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Permalink Reply by Rick Rey on June 26, 2007 at 1:45pm

yeah, ruby is hot. i started learning ruby on rails but didn't have the time to push past the learning curve.

Here's a great tutorial to get you started:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/12/14/revisiting-ruby-on-ra...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Woolf on July 1, 2007 at 1:52am

I do loves the PHP. I've developed really complex enterprise-level stuff with PHP and it's really flexible and powerful. Only thing that annoys me is that doing PHP upgrades often breaks old code.

If I had the time I would definitely invest it in learning Ruby. I've checked through a bunch of documentation and the syntax looks really easy to learn.

If anyone is new to programming and checking this stuff out, be sure to start out with an object-oriented language. It's much better to go with OOP that procedural code at this point -- the whole industry is focused on objects now.

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Permalink Reply by Danijel Grabo on July 2, 2007 at 9:25am

PHP & AJAX 4 life. I think PHPis perfekt for Webdesigners, because it's really dynamical, and with AJAX you get the Web 2.0 effects, the perfekt tools for a good homepgae. (The only thing I hate on PHP, I can't get a LOCAL preview of the files with my firefox, I don't know why...)

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Permalink Reply by Cole Roberts on July 2, 2007 at 9:42am

I agree PHP is my favorite language to use seeing as its incredibly flexible.

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Permalink Reply by Aaron on July 16, 2007 at 11:39am

I <3 PHP.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Painter on July 16, 2007 at 5:33pm

i just started my new job today and im using Cold Fusion......well see how i like it. ill let you guys know!

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Painter on July 24, 2007 at 9:22pm

so i have been working with coldfusion now for about a week now...i developed a couple of simple web applications at work. i really like it and i cant wait to get into some more advanced applications. does anyone else deal with coldfusion? also i dont know if this is true but from what i have read coldfusion is simple compared to php. anyone think i will be at a disadvantage learning coldfusion before mastering php?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Woolf on July 29, 2007 at 1:34pm

I doubt it'll be a disadvantage. The concepts are always more important than the syntax, and programming concepts are generally similar across the board, especially for non-compiled languages.

I worked with Cold Fusion years ago, but back then it was very slow and clunky. From what I've heard, they've made it into a really nice language that works well with Flash apps, too.

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Permalink Reply by Sarnix on July 26, 2007 at 6:52am

PHP for me, too. Although the uebergeeks at my work seem to like Python a lot. Probably if support for it was more widespread by hosting providers, we'd develop more in Python.

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Permalink Reply by Cole Roberts on July 28, 2007 at 5:21am

PHP.

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Permalink Reply by Lukewh on August 15, 2007 at 9:03am

PHP and Actionscript for me. Flash is so powerful! But you do need the php interaction to get the complex stuff done. I've started to dable in CSS and AJAX over the past month. CSS is great but AJAX get's confusing. I supose it'd help if I knew JavaScript.

One thing with programming is once you've mastered a language, others seem to make more sense when learning .

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