The great language debate !!!

[potato rig]

The great and ongoing debate about which language is the best

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, potato rig said:

The great and ongoing debate about the heirarchy of programming languages

huh?

[Nuluvius]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

huh?

That was pretty much my reaction...

[SCHISCHKA]

what debate?

the hierarchy is:

machine code

assembly/low level languages

high level languages

 

this debate is fake news!

[sazrocks]

But of course, we must not forget the king of all programming languages...

01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100001

Yes that actually means something. Also rip mobile users with these massive images.

[Colexd]

this is so vague lol

[sazrocks]

3 minutes ago, Erik Sieghart said:

Actually that's misleading, since most languages are self-hosted; and the C# compiler is written in C++, but doesn't compile into C++ code.

I'm confused here, what do you mean? Does all code not compile down into binary eventually?

[evilarceus]

There will never be a "perfect" programming language any time soon. There's always a part where a certain programming language falls short, such as performance, readability, cross-platform support, scalability, resource usage, etc. I'd say Python comes close, but definitely not "perfect" in any sense.

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

bodyfuck is the best language all other langauages were developed to bring us its greatness everyone who doesnt code in it are skiddies 

[potato rig]

7 hours ago, sazrocks said:

But of course, we must not forget the king of all programming languages...

01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100001

Yes that actually means something. Also rip mobile users with these massive images.

It means Binary!

[vorticalbox]

13 hours ago, sazrocks said:

But of course, we must not forget the king of all programming languages...

01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100001

Yes that actually means something. Also rip mobile users with these massive images.

loaded fine on my phone lol

[Mira Yurizaki]

The best language is obviously HTML.

[potato rig]

15 hours ago, evilarceus said:

There will never be a "perfect" programming language any time soon. There's always a part where a certain programming language falls short, such as performance, readability, cross-platform support, scalability, resource usage, etc. I'd say Python comes close, but definitely not "perfect" in any sense.

Python is also my favorite especially because the raspberry pi 0 is so much cheaper

[Dat Guy]

On 13.8.2017 at 7:43 AM, potato rig said:

The great and ongoing debate about which language is the best

C.

[BigCake]

Python is 'best' in learning because it is comparatively much easier than other languages.

 

What`s plus thing for me in python? Python is used to program Cozmo robot.

[FriedBanter]

2 hours ago, Atalia Chez said:

Python is 'best' in learning because it is comparatively much easier than other languages.

Lua is even more forgiving. Even though it's tedious to learn syntax once you decide you want to take up a Turing Complete language or whatnot. The best programming language is the one that you are most comfortable to work with IMO.

[vorticalbox]

1 hour ago, FriedBanter said:

Lua is even more forgiving. Even though it's tedious to learn syntax once you decide you want to take up a Turing Complete language or whatnot. The best programming language is the one that you are most comfortable to work with IMO.

That also right language for the job at hand. 

[Yamoto42]

[VicBar]

On 16/8/2017 at 0:03 PM, vorticalbox said:

That also right language for the job at hand. 

THIS.

So no more arguing over better, it depends.

 

Now about favourite, oh boy... Mine right now is R. But honourable mentions to Racket, Haskell.

[FriedBanter]

5 hours ago, VicBar said:

THIS.

So no more arguing over better, it depends.

 

Now about favourite, oh boy... Mine right now is R. But honourable mentions to Racket, Haskell.

My old teacher's last name was Haskell, it was very ironic when he made my classmates and I try Haskell.

[lal12]

I don't think this debate can really lead to something, due to the missing goals and specific task. But in the end nothing runs without assembler, which is not even a typical language due to it huge differences on various platforms. Which doesn't mean assembler is the best, most more complex tasks would almost impossible to write in assembler in a lifetime. But it is definitely the most important language, because nothing would work without it. You could still distinguish between assembler and machine code, but the differences are really small. Assembler is just a textual representation with some semantic sugar and a bit of memory management (like variable and constant memory handling).

[Dat Guy]

10 hours ago, lal12 said:

in the end nothing runs without assembler

This is not true. In fact, quite nothing would be lost if there was no assembler.

Actual machine code is essential though.

[Sebivor]

The best programming language will always be Undefined. Its level of abstraction simply can't be topped!

[lal12]

5 hours ago, Dat Guy said:

This is not true. In fact, quite nothing would be lost if there was no assembler.

Actual machine code is essential though.

How would you write critical parts of your OS if not in assembler or any library that needs performance? And like I said, I don't want to distinguish between assembler and machine code cause they are quite close. Also every compiler compiles into assembler/machine code in the end.

[Dat Guy]

Assembler is not even remotely the same thing as machine code. There are several syntaxes.