What's your favorite programming language?

Vala

I'm impressed no one has mentioned Vala yet. It's my favourite. It compiles into C code.
You get the speed and libraries of C while you get high level stuff like lambda functions and much much more.
They've also made it able to script vala (still experimental, but works if it's not too complex a script).

when combined with ksh or bash it so simple and versatile

Hi all,

PHP turned to become my 16th computer language after 40 years of software business. For more than 25 years I have been in computer performance tuning. Mainframes, you know. The real machines. Anyhow I was in need to develop real-time monitors for LINUX and WINDOWS. Browsers are fine, HTML and CSS and jquery, MySQL and you name it PHP.

Have a try:
http://notebook.linuxaomi.operaunite.com/192.168.100.203/aomi/rtm.php
http://notebook.windowsaomi.operaunite.com/192.168.100.205/xampp/rtm.php

In case you would like to install AoMi real-time performance monitor on your own PC refer to http://notebook.linuxaomi.operaunite.com
There you will find File-Sharing and LAMPP.ZIP and WAMPP.ZIP as well. Read stts_aomi_installation.pdf and get the most out of your computer.

Thanks,
linuxaomi

java is my favorite.
at work im using c for development of kernel linux drivers.
and also worked with, basic, c#,c++, ruby, python, pascal, java-script, commandline, F#(not much), html and ATEasy.

XLST 2 + XPATH 2

My favorite is BASIC, not the new Visual Basic stuff, just the good old Quick Basic and Liberty Basic.

LOLPYTHON FTW! C'mon. It doesn't get better than this:

IN MAI datetime GIMME date LIKE DATE

SO IM LIKE FIBBING WIT N OK?
LOL ITERATE FIBONACCI TERMS LESS THAN N /LOL
SO GOOD N BIG LIKE EASTERBUNNY
BTW, FIBONACCI LIKE BUNNIES! LOL
U BORROW CHEEZBURGER
U BORROW CHEEZBURGER
I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER
HE CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER
WHILE I CUTE?
I AND HE CAN HAZ HE AND I ALONG WITH HE
IZ HE BIG LIKE N?
KTHXBYE
U BORROW HE

IZ __name__ KINDA LIKE "__main__"?
COMPLAIN "NOW IZ" AND DATE OWN today THING
IZ BIGNESS ARGZ OK KINDA LIKE 1?
N CAN HAS 100
NOPE?
N CAN HAS NUMBR ARGZ LOOK AT 1!!
GIMME EACH I IN UR FIBBING WIT N OK?
VISIBLE I

Python is my language of choice for real though.

Groovy and Grails give you all the benefits of Ruby and Rails on the JVM with a Java-based syntax, direct access to Java classes/libraries as if you were programming in Java, and a Web framework based on Java enterprise-level libraries.

http://groovy.codehaus.org/
http://www.grails.org/

Python for the web programming, Java for the portability and D for the complex projects.

Used to do Delphi, but recently as need for multiplatform projects increase, Lazarus/FPC comes in handy and I'm really liking it. As unrefined as it's now this Lazarus FPC seems to have a bright future.

For embedded applications, I use C almost exclusively.

I am learning JAVA and looking into PHP.

PHP for the web and C# for my offline coding. I wouldn't mind trying python, but i need some free time first.

if you know it, you love it.

I did develop in 11 languages. and Tcl-TK it's unique.

Sorry by my poor english

I like Ruby, not sure if it is favorite. Io is very cool, too.

obj-c++

RPG, of course.

LISP and Fortran, just for their wonderful history. LISP was elegant and non-linear, Fortran was very linear and closely wedded to the old machine architectures back when it mattered (30+ years ago).

My vote is "other" and it is for Erlang. It is just amazing how much you can do in so few lines of code. There's a bit of a hurdle to get into the proper mindset to use Erlang properly if you've never worked in a functional programming language before. However, the end result is well worth putting the time into learning it.

JavaScript (or should I say ECMAScript?) is a powerful and elegant language. I love the closures and anonymous functions, and the class-less object system. I once wrote a graph library and I was able to write a method for topological sorting in less than 10 lines!