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What's your language (AKA "Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?")

This is not a discussion of political standings or one to start a firery debate, but something on a more simplier scale...

What language do you use to develop web sites? ASP, CFML, PHP, etc...

Me, I'm a CFML (Cold Fusion) programmer - have been from the very beginning (of my job and the language). I find that it's easy to learn/teach - and has some power in its ability to do what I need it to do. And honestly that's the #1 priority - "Do What I Tell You To Do". Past that, all the bells and whistles are cool for any language you use - but how long will you use it if you can't get it to function as needed.

So where do you weigh in?

Thanks, Bill

PS - earn extra points by incorporating movie quotes into your response.

PSS - Cloverfield is cool and has completely messed with my head!

Tags: dev, development, languages, web

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Permalink Reply by Bill Vernon on February 28, 2008 at 8:25pm: Very good - I like to hear when a developer is honest and admits that his/her language of choice is great, but there are some places where it could be better. But fear not, just pull our your handy-dandy Swiss Army toolkit, find something else, diversify, and keep right on truckin'.

Score: 8.48 for content and a bonus +0.5 for quoting the best geek movie of all time. :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Uhri on March 8, 2008 at 11:31am: I'm a .NET developer. I've been using M$ technology for 10 years, and it does what I need it to. I started with ASP and then went to VB6 --> VB.NET --> C#.

ASP.NET and C# are probably my favorite environments. I do believe in CSS and standards, however, and avoid the bad practices by many-a-Microsoft programmers.

I like the Subsonic framework for the backend stuff, and use jQuery for the front end. jQuery's simplicity has made me blissfully ignore Microsoft's AJAX library.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by P.J. Hinton on March 8, 2008 at 8:54pm: Historically, I come from a native code background, with ancient roots in FORTRAN and the last decade being Mathematica, C/C++, and a smattering of Java.

I'm now making the transition to PHP5/Agavi Framework, XSLT, and JavaScript. It hasn't been too much of a culture shock, but it was admittedly a bit unnerving to let go of variable declarations.

Movie Quote: "You can't fight in here; this is the 'War Room.'" -- from Dr. Strangelove; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Andy Harris on May 21, 2008 at 3:20pm: "Some watery tot distributing swords is not the basis of a system of government."
If I have to say what movie that one's from, I'm in the wrong forum (but it's Monty Python and the Holy Grail, just in case)

I've messed around with a lot of environments including perl, ASP.NET, JSP/Servlets/J2EE, and Python, but when I need to get something done quickly server-side, I tend to go back to the faithful LAMP stack. PHP has been pretty faithful to me over the years, and you can't beat the price.

I find myself doing more AJAX now, primarily with JQuery. It's pretty darn cool.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Cordial on May 30, 2008 at 12:42am: I'm heavy into PHP, and it's the mother tongue for me as far as programming and scripting goes. I prefer interface design though, more front end work. I love Actionscript 3 and I'm stoked about the release of the Flash Player 10 player. Javascript is nice, but because I've been in AS so long, Javascript feels... so... sloppy. AS 2 and 1 people will think that sounds absurd, but for gods sake, can't I get a cross platform way of attaching events universally without having to do a browser check?!? It's 2008 for crying out loud! Also, CSS is fun fun fun to play around with.

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Permalink Reply by Dustin Sparks on May 30, 2008 at 10:15am: Thats why we have Prototype and JQuery. Cross-platform-ed-ness.; ▶ Reply to This

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