What's your programming language(s)?

[CoffeeCoder]

This is just something I'm a little curious about.

What programming language(s) do you use/prefer? What language did you start with when learning about computer programming?

For me, I started out with DarkBASIC (a Windows-only game development language), then moved on to learning C++ (just now starting with it). I'm also going to study Python, although I'm having trouble finding detailed tutorials. I still use DarkBASIC on Windows (I know, shameful) for casual game development, which I keep progress of in my blog (link in my signature).

The programming languages I prefer to use are C++ and Python because of their flexibility and multi-platform programming ability. I'm certainly no expert on either of them, however!

So what about you? What language did you start with and what do you prefer to use for programming?

[underquark]

Started with BASIC on an Apple II. Flirted with machine code on the Apple II (the 6502 processor only had a limited set of op-codes and you could easily memorise them). Tried Visual Basic which was OK, I suppose. Tried Delphi and quite liked it. Had a go at C, C++, Java, Python. I probably had the most fun with machine code on the Apple (they published the OS/ROM for the machine on paper, it was so small) and with Delphi just for its shear ease of writing usable Windows apps. When it comes to Linux then I've found there are many people way smarter than me that have mostly already done what I was thinking of trying to do.

[LunaCollins]

I took VB.NET and C++ as classes in high school. VB.NET is actually really easy for me. C++, was too, but I'm still shaky on the concept of classes. Actually, I met my boyfriend by taking C++ last schoolyear. I played around with HTML for a bit, but got bored with it for whatever reason.

[WinterMadness]

i like java, c++ and python

im proficient with visual basic as well, but i dont like it

[RiceMonster]

I like PHP and C#. PHP because it's really flexible without going overboard like perl, and C# because it's like Java that doesn't suck.

[WinterMadness]

you take that back!
java is the best

[CoffeeCoder]

I'm really interested in studying Java as well, actually, because I'm a little familiar with C# from experimenting with XNA Game Studio back in my Windows-only days. I'm gonna look into that right now, actually.

[Red_Steve]

PHP, Java, C++, Visual Basic

[NightwishFan]

I am a noob but I have been getting good at python (wrote a few graphical apps). I think I may try to get proficient using Vala.

[samalex]

For me I picked-up programming using BASIC on the TRS-80 systems in the late 80's, then picked-up GWBasic and Turbo Pascal in MS-DOS in the early 90's. Also in high school we used ZBasic and Pascal on the Macs which was different yet fun.

When I got into college in the late 90's I started getting more into web design and picked-up HTML (granted not a true language), PHP, Perl, then ColdFusion at my first job. From there I moved into Visual Basic 6 and now at my current job I've picked-up VB and C# under the DotNet framework.

On my side projects I do most of my work in PHP, though I'd like to start working more with C# and Mono and also possibly pick up Python and Java.

Sam