Favorite Language?

[Pidgeot]

This is a poll about your favorite server-side scripting language. If you vote for "Other", please post to tell me which one. Please also post your reasons for loving/hating one of the options. If there's an option you'd like to see that isn't up there, please post and I'll edit the poll if it's widespread enough (i.e. no obscure languages that only you use).

 

[Pidgeot]

Who voted for other, and what did you vote for? I'm trying to get an idea of forum consensus off the results.

 

[Faltzer]

Python. Self-explanatory, if you ask "Why not PHP?".

 

[Abwayax]

ASP is not a language, it is a technology. ASP pages are typically implemented in either JScript or VBScript.

As for my favorite scripting language overall, I'd probably have to go with ECMAScript (otherwise known as JavaScript). I think it looks better than, e.g. PHP. PHP has other things that nag at me, such as inconsistencies in function naming. From what little I know of Python, it's pretty nice too. Perl is just horrible, from my point of view (there's something to be said when its users are proud of writing obfuscated code).

 

[1. Luftballon]

SSI isn't really a language, either.

Scheme. It's a Lisp dialect. Nice, clean, human-unfriendly, and inefficient.

 

[Abwayax]

Is Scheme ever used in server-side scripting?

 

[1. Luftballon]

I use it occasionally. Not common, though.

 

[Nick]

I like Python too. Well, at least better than PHP.

 

[Mudkipz]

English.







:sweatdrop:

 

[Salazard]

VB.NET... Mainly because it's the only one I know xD Would like to learn Python though.