Why are you so insistent that I have to have some kind of favoritism or preference? Why is it a problem for you that I don't hold unjustifiable opinions about arbitrary things?

Not trolling - serious question.

And sometimes there isn't a "most appropriate" language for the job, and in those situations your personal preferences will probably weigh in on your decision.

A client asks you to write some software on the .NET platform, but doesn't care whether you use VB.NET or C#. The two languages are essentially equivalent, so which would you choose? I'd choose C# because VB.NET syntax annoys the shit out of me.

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Why are you so insistent that I have to have some kind of favoritism or preference? Why is it a problem for you that I don't hold unjustifiable opinions about arbitrary things?
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Wow! Why didn't you just simply say "no preference" or not reply at all?

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I'd choose C# because VB.NET syntax annoys the shit out of me.
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I've read that somewhere else. Maybe you wrote about it in another forum? Isn't VB.NET usage shrinking? There might be something behind your hate of it.

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There is always a 'most appropriate' language for the job.

It just happens that there are some people who haven't learned Prolog yet.

Isn't it possible that programmer and client circumstances could cause a situation of not having enough time to make a thorough comparison of various language strengths and weaknesses in client needs?

swiftcoder, what two languages do you most enjoy using together?

Compiled Java & a scripting language

Does such thing exists? There is a GNU Java compiler, but it has been abandoned. And there is another native compiler but it isn't free and it only supports JRE6.

They are just examples up there in the first post.

What two languages to you like to use together?

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What two languages to you like to use together?[/quote]

I don't believe you should ever set out with the express aim of using multiple programming languages. That way leads to giant, bolted-toghether monstrosities like the Java and Objective-C ecosystems.

If I had my way, I would write absolutely everything in Python. Why? Because it is friendly, concise, and fun to program in.

Unfortunately, there are still various performance issues, especially if you want to run on more limited platforms, like iOS or Android. But never fear! I have full confidence that our Google overlords will eventually solve this small problem, by making PyPy the fastest JIT on the block...

I've done a fair bit of python stringing together more python and C.

I've worked on one 'really interesting' AI project that involved a C program envoking python scripts, several of which were used to tie together C or C++ code that in turn made calls to embedded python libraries, which at times continued the cycle...

I drifted away from that project, but last I heard they gave a new guy who joined the team the task of writing software to better visualize the code base.