Favorite Scripting Languages

Personally I'm a big fan of Perl because its mature, nearly universally available on any platform and because it can be made to do almost anything thanks to the contributions in CPAN.

I like PHP but the more I use Perl the more I like it, I love how I can get best performance from a perl web script by using mod_perl with Apache instead of investing in Zend's optimizer. I know there are other bytecode optimizers out there but mod_perl for Apache is so much easier and perl is already installed on most *nix systems.

I'd like to play with Python some more but I don't have quite enough time on my hands for that.

Hi,

I am learning PHP and it seems very interesting and not too difficult. It seems very powerfull. I am just a beginner in PHP.

<?
echo "thank you,";
echo "Andre";
echo "p.s. Did I forget something?";
?>

I am not a programmer, but want to learn php as well. Since all of what i know at least something of is php i am probably not very fit to vote for my fav scripting language, but judging from what i do know and what i heard from James, i'd probably vote for php and perl or both. :-) It's simply because php is very popular and highly supported and because perl indeed seems to have even better performance. I see that newsforge is actually built with perl and as a very big site it functions very well and fast.

Thanks
Daniel

The nicest thing about PHP is that it is easy to learn, for most folks. Perl is somewhat cryptic at first but if you approach it like you would a natural language instead of a computer language it is actually quite beautiful. I just love Perl's goal too:

Make the simple things simple and the complex things possible

And there slogan is nice as well:

There's more than one way to do it.

Indeed! :-)

Dan

I love python. Mainly because its syntax prevents typical typing errors that plague other languages. What are {} and ; good for if you're using indentation and newlines anyway, to make your program easier to read by humans? Also, it is not less powerful than any other scripting language.

I don't like perl, because of the "there's more than one way to do it" thing. If you want to cooperate with others, this means you should know all ways of doing things, because those others might use them and you want to be able to read their code. Noone puts so much comments in their code it is possible to completely understand what the program does without understanding the code at all.

I'm interested in learning more about lua.

My favorite thing about perl is CPAN, I haven't found any other language with a collection of modules and extensions as extensive as CPAN for Perl. Most of that is because of the age of Perl but dang CPAN makes mundane things so much easier because most of the time someone has already made a module to do it.

I am not much of a programmer, I am afraid. The only languages I know is Visual Basic, Pascal (which were thought in school) and PHP, so I guess PHP gets my vote.

I can't really remember why I chose PHP when I first started out, but I think it mostly have to do with it being free

I like PHP because it is widely supported, there are plenty of scritps written in it, the community is just great and ever willing to help, simple yet powerful and, it is more practical for me than VB and Pascal

Going into Uni soon, wonder what they'll teach there, but I believe it might be .NET. Don't really like MS technology, but I supposed when you gotta learn, you gotta learn and you'd better learn it well.

Happy Programming

.NET is not a language. It is a collection of technologies from microsoft. Actually, almost anything from ms related to programming gets the .NET label...

The .NET stuff does have that common underlying assembly language that everything gets half-way compiled to before making it to actual binary code.

.NET is an interesting language-framework with its common runtime, intermediate assembly language and what not. I studied VB.NET and C# and they are both interesting. The idea for .NET is a good one if only they took it the extra step to be cross-platform so it could compete with Java, but that really wasn't the intent so I guess it's not surprising.