Programming Languages

[WageSlave1]

Interested to canvass opinion as to what professionals in the field consider to be the best high-level programming language.

What, in your view, is the best language and why? Anything other than .NET?

[zeitghost]

FORTRAN IV (1966) BECAUSEYOUCANTYPEEVERYTHINGINCAPITALSWITHOUTSPACES

And the ASSIGNED GOTO.

And the EQUIVALENCE statement.

[DimPrawn]

There is no one "best" language. The OO academics will say SmallTalk or something that no one in the industry uses.

Low level bit twiddlers will say C.

Dinosaurs on this BB will cite COBOL/FORTRAN or some valve driven assembler entered on punched cards.

Anyone with any sense will say C# V2.0

[MisterGoof]

TACL !
who else here knows TACL ?

[SupremeSpod]

From back in my mainframe days - S3

Now, C++

Spod.

[Cojak]

M204

A little known but excellent language that had it's own relational database...

[mr blobby]

I know TACL too.

Blo0dy awful language >D

[zeitghost]

What about FORTH?

You can use the curious construction IF ELSE THEN...

Magic.

[Lucifer Box]

Clipper - great language sadly missed.

[SupremeSpod]

Clipper?

Bollox, The only Clipper worth knowing about is a chip!

Spod - In "I Know about it" mode!