Which language
Recently I’ve been doing some thinking about programming languages and why me and other programmers use the languaes we use. The most obvious reason is probably because we learnt a specific language in our studies. I use Java because I learnt it at university, and PHP because I stumbled into web development and this is the most popular free language for web development available.
I like both these languages but I’ve started asking myself whether there could be something better out there, and I suspect there could. After a lot of surfing around the web I have come to the conclusion that Ruby, Perl or Python could be on to something. However learning 3 new languages is just stupid, so I decided to investigate Python [1] a bit further.
I also found this interesting website ranking programming languages according to their popularity in search terms at various search engines, as well as the Python Challenge, an interesting way to learn a new language by writing simple scripts to solve a different “riddles”.
As a matter of curiosity, if you’re a programmer which languages do you use most frequently?
[1] If you decide to check out the Python website, be sure to go to www.python.org and not .com, just take my word for it.
