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Re:Say Something Nice About Every Language You’ve Used by faragon on Thursday December 09, 2010 @09:52AM (#1987608)
C: Simple and powerful.

C++: Nice library (STL) and RAII.

Java: Simple and fast enough for most tasks.

Bash: Great Swiss knife scripting.

Perl: Great all purpose hacking language.

Python: Is a very expressive language.

Ruby: Simple and expressive language.

Lisp: Clean, flexible, and beautiful.

ML: A very expressive language. Lots of fun.

Prolog: A kind of magic.

COBOL: It's Turing complete.

Pascal: It's Turing complete.

DBase: It's Turing complete.

Fortran: Short but better than a priory expected relationship.

GWBasic: A toy, lots of fun back in the day.

Visual Basic: It's Turing complete.

HTML: It's simple.

Javascript: Extrange but powerful language.

PHP: Useful for getting the job done.

z80 assembly: Not bad for the money.

6502 assembly: Simple and beautiful.

8086 assembly: Could be worse.

68000 assembly: Resourceful.

i386 assembly: Could be worse.

x86_64 assembly: Ugly as always but with more registers.

MIPS assembly: Lots of registers (32i, 32f), nice syntax.

PowerPC assembly: Lots of registers (32i, 32f), nice syntax.

ARM assembly: Just 16 registers, but very expresive instructions.

Spanish: A rude but phonetic-honest language (mother tongue).

Catalan: As musical as French, as simple as Spanish.

French: I like how it sounds.

Italian: I like its rithm.

English: Simple and beautiful language.

German: I like its grammar.

Latin: For Rome!

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