What is your favorite programming language and why?
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Here's why:
* Easy to learn
* Loads and loads of useful functions
* A couple of really good frameworks ( Zend Framework, Symfony , CodeIgniter )
* One of the most popular scripting languages on the net
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straightforward object-orientated inheritance. i love to think about where the common ground is, where the critical flux points are, and then to partition things off in ways that make the implementation and use of each component a heck of a lot simpler, so OO inheritance is at the top of the list.
# operator overloading (although this isn't everyone's favourite because they tend to mangle its use by not THINKING. operator overloading should only be used in intuitive ways, e.g. for +, * etc on a vector class!)
# i especially like, in c, using tables of function pointers to define an API (with the implementation being in a dynamically loaded library with only one published function, which returns a pointer to the table).
# i definitely like python's use of indentation to indicate blocks of code. whilst that makes for minor inconvenience in having to think of ways to code around the lack of a repeat until construct and the lack of a do while, the "tidy" look enforced upon programmers by the indentation makes for much easier code reading: you _know_ what to expect.
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