Thread: Which programming languages do you use?

PHP is a great language for someone developing a final year project or the likes.... its not a bad language and its really easy to learn in a short ammount of time given the ammount of support and pre-written scripts out there. Im currently learning RoR. Its a million miles from PHP but from what ive done so far its just so productive. what takes 100 lines in PHP takes just 10 in RoR.... A really productive language.

A final year project?! Eep.

And I just can't see it as a good language to learn to program in. Worse than basic.

XHTML is not a programming language, so should probably not be in that list.

Kae - I know. Maybe I should have used a different term, but if I hadn't included it ....

true. maybe "None - (X)HTML is good enough without screwing around"?

Ruby seems ok (only started), still (so far) not as good as PHP.

I do almost all of my coding with php, most recently I've been using CakePHP : the rapid development php framework which is a nice framework and can help get things up and running quickly. Similar approach to RoR.

Are we classing HTML and XHTML as a programming language these days guys?

Pretty much 100% php myself, speed and ease of building and maintanence is the real reason.

Originally Posted by seodave

Are we classing HTML and XHTML as a programming language these days guys?

These days? I wasn't aware that the definition had changed recently.

(They're not programming languages, of course, and never have been.)

Well, there is a difference between markup and programming.

Anyway, mostly PHP, but am venturing into RoR lately. It's interesting, but the learning curve, IMO, is still steeper than PHP. Maybe I'm just getting old.