2010-04-06, 05:05 AM
Hmmm.... It's a toss-up.
I'm an old programmer and C has been my favorite since, well, since the alternatives were Assembly, PL/1, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC (that didn't look anything like today's VB), Pascal, slowly interpreted LISP and PROLOG, write-only APL, and a bunch of even more obscure languages.
But in later years I've become lazy enough to like some of the shortcuts C++ offers (although I dislike quite a few of its features), and I find that when I want to program something just for fun it's usually in C++ (although a sufficiently knowledgeable programmer looking at my code would be able to tell I still think in C). So, I'm going to vote for that.
I'm an old programmer and C has been my favorite since, well, since the alternatives were Assembly, PL/1, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC (that didn't look anything like today's VB), Pascal, slowly interpreted LISP and PROLOG, write-only APL, and a bunch of even more obscure languages.
But in later years I've become lazy enough to like some of the shortcuts C++ offers (although I dislike quite a few of its features), and I find that when I want to program something just for fun it's usually in C++ (although a sufficiently knowledgeable programmer looking at my code would be able to tell I still think in C). So, I'm going to vote for that.