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By ranking the importance of the criteria below, you can use this program to help you choose between ten of the most popular programming languages today, Java, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, PHP, Lisp/Scheme, C/C++, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

Take a look at the page source to see how the determination is done. Feel free to object to the weights used in the calculation.

It's a bit silly, I know, but it made me grin so I thought I'd share.

By Ehud Lamm at 2006-07-27 21:27 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 6514 reads

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Lisp

AFAICT there is no way to get Lisp as the result, unless you put negative numbers in ease of learning or popularity.

By Sjoerd Visscher at Fri, 2006-07-28 08:11 | login or register to post comments

Nihilistic Lisp

Try entering all zeros: Lisp is for people who don't care.

By Ronny Wichers Schreur at Fri, 2006-07-28 09:44 | login or register to post comments

thats not exactly true.

thats not exactly true.

ease of learning the language 1
ease of using the language.... 20
speed of program execution.. 1
quality of available tools...... 1
popularity of the language.... 1
power and expressiveness...... 50
cross-platform availability.... 1
low cost of language tools..... 1
ease of client side web scripting. 1
ease of server side web scripting. 1

gives me lisp.

By Felicia Li Svilling at Fri, 2006-07-28 10:03 | login or register to post comments

ease of learning the language = 1 ???

No wonder I gave up trying to learn Lisp then.

My quick input (attempting to be honest) gave me C/C++, which is accurate, as it happens.

I do not know why I was pleased to see that Visual Basic scored lowest on my profile. I suppose it is because the very name gives me the pip. Something to do with E.J. Djikstra (sp??)?

By GlynAdgie at Sat, 2006-07-29 17:38 | login or register to post comments