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languages of choice
(foldoc) | languages of choice
C and Lisp. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and
most good ones are fluent in both. Smalltalk and Prolog are
also popular in small but influential communities.
There is also a rapidly dwindling category of older hackers
with Fortran, or even assembler, as their language of choice.
They often prefer to be known as Real Programmers, and other
hackers consider them a bit odd (see "The Story of Mel").
Assembler is generally no longer considered interesting or
appropriate for anything but HLL implementation, glue, and
a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems
programs. Fortran occupies a shrinking niche in scientific
programming.
Most hackers tend to frown on languages like Pascal and
Ada, which don't give them the near-total freedom considered
necessary for hacking (see bondage-and-discipline language),
and to regard everything even remotely connected with COBOL
or other traditional card walloper languages as a total and
unmitigated loss.
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languages of choice
(jargon) | languages of choice
n.
C, Perl, Python, Java and LISP — the dominant languages in
open-source development. This list has changed over time, but slowly. Java
bumped C++ off of it, and Python appears to be recruiting people who would
otherwise gravitate to LISP (which used to be much more important than it
is now). Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential
communities.
The Real Programmers who loved FORTRAN and assembler have pretty much all
retired or died since 1990. Assembler is generally no longer considered
interesting or appropriate for anything but HLL implementation, glue,
and a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems programs.
FORTRAN occupies a shrinking niche in scientific programming.
Most hackers tend to frown on languages like Pascal and Ada, which don't
give them the near-total freedom considered necessary for hacking (see {
bondage-and-discipline language}), and to regard everything even remotely
connected with COBOL or other traditional DP languages as a total and
unmitigated loss.
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