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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>languages of choice</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="language-lawyer.html" title="language lawyer"/><link rel="next" href="LART.html" title="LART"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">languages of choice</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="language-lawyer.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LART.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="languages-of-choice"/><dt xmlns="" id="languages-of-choice"><b>languages of choice</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>, <a href="../P/Perl.html"><i class="glossterm">Perl</i></a>,
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<a href="../P/Python.html"><i class="glossterm">Python</i></a>, <a href="../J/Java.html"><i class="glossterm">Java</i></a> and
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<a href="LISP.html"><i class="glossterm">LISP</i></a> — the dominant languages in open-source
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development. This list has changed over time, but slowly. Java bumped C++
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off of it, and Python appears to be recruiting people who would otherwise
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gravitate to LISP (which used to be much more important than it is now).
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Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential
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communities.</p><p>The <a href="../R/Real-Programmer.html"><i class="glossterm">Real Programmer</i></a>s who loved FORTRAN and
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assembler have pretty much all retired or died since 1990. Assembler is
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generally no longer considered interesting or appropriate for anything but
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<a href="../H/HLL.html"><i class="glossterm">HLL</i></a> implementation, <a href="../G/glue.html"><i class="glossterm">glue</i></a>, and
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a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems programs.
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FORTRAN occupies a shrinking niche in scientific programming.</p><p>Most hackers tend to frown on languages like
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<a href="../P/Pascal.html"><i class="glossterm">Pascal</i></a> and Ada, which don't
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give them the near-total freedom considered necessary for hacking (see
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<a href="../B/bondage-and-discipline-language.html"><i class="glossterm">bondage-and-discipline language</i></a>), and to regard
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everything even remotely connected with <a href="../C/COBOL.html"><i class="glossterm">COBOL</i></a> or
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other traditional <a href="../D/DP.html"><i class="glossterm">DP</i></a> languages as a total
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and unmitigated <a href="loss.html"><i class="glossterm">loss</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="language-lawyer.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LART.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">language lawyer </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> LART</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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