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ABAP 1 vote
Ada 1 vote
Algol 1 vote
Alice 1 vote
Apex 1 vote
Assembly 1 vote
Visual Basic 1 vote
Bash/Shell/PowerShell 2 votes
C 3 votes
C++ 1 vote
C# 2 votes
Objective-C 1 vote
Cobol 1 vote
Clojure 1 vote
Crystal 1 vote
CSS 3 votes
D 1 vote
Dart 1 vote
Delphi 1 vote
Dylan 1 vote
Elixir 2 votes
Elm 2 votes
Erlang 2 votes
F# 2 votes
Forth 2 votes
Fortran 1 vote
Go 1 vote
Groovy 1 vote
Haskell 1 vote
Haxe 1 vote
HTML 3 votes
Io 1 vote
Java 4 votes
Javascript 1 vote
Julia 1 vote
Kotlin 1 vote
Lisp 1 vote
Logo 1 vote
Lua 1 vote
Matlab 2 votes
Mumps 1 vote
Nim 1 vote
Ocaml 2 votes
Pascal 1 vote
Perl 1 vote
PHP 1 vote
Prolog 1 vote
Python 7 votes
R 1 vote
Racket 2 votes
Ruby 2 votes
Rust 1 vote
Scala 2 votes
Scheme 1 vote
Smalltalk 2 votes
SQL 2 votes
Swift 1 vote
Typescript 3 votes
Verilog 1 vote
VHDL 1 vote
WebAssembly 1 vote
Zig 1 vote
Other 3 votes
Re:Poll: Which programming language do you use most often? by ignoranceprior on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:21AM (#26299985)
Did someone actually vote for Algol? Hard to believe in 2021. Or, maybe the vote count started at 1 and nobody actually chose it.

If someone here really does use Algol as their go-to language, I'd like to hear why.

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Re:Poll: Which programming language do you use most often? by smt88 on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:04AM (#26300346)
Lots of people on HN are hobbyists (not employed in software), retired, or both. I'm not surprised to see Algol here.
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Re:Poll: Which programming language do you use most often? by gus_massa on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:01AM (#26302346)
Votes start at 1. (For the options, they are probably just reusing the code for comments, that start with 1 point.)
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Re:Poll: Which programming language do you use most often? by timrowledge on Sunday February 28, 2021 @11:29PM (#26299762)
Smalltalk, obviously.
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Re:Poll: Which programming language do you use most often? by slondr on Sunday February 28, 2021 @11:34PM (#26299782)
Common Lisp, as should be expected
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