Fuck the best programming language. What is the language that will impress people the most? What language will get people's jaws dropping like your mother's panties when they realize a program's code is in that language?
Assembly, C, Java, Python, Go, C++, C#, Ruby are obviously out of consideration. Asm will make people think you're a weirdo, not a genius. C and C++ have the whole smart people thing going on but they are too popular and too many people know those languages to really make an impression.
Haskell is suitably alien in appearance to those who have only used C's syntactic derivatives like Python and Javascript, and it carries some amount of prestige in its name. Racket looks strange too, but it doesn't have the geek clout of Haskell. That said, Haskell is actually a really simple language, so much so that using it can feel very clumsy at times. I prefer OCaml and Rust btw
Levi Jenkins
Redstone
Adam Cruz
this it has a reputation of being a language by geniuses for geniuses whether that's a fair description is left up to the reader but it's probably the one language that people associate the most with smart people
Jack Flores
Julia
Jose Russell
Haskell, just take a look at the libraries like Lens and see how much insanity/genius can be written in it.
Brayden Carter
Pure zsh
Ryder Cox
Your own.
Aiden Sullivan
Zsh only (it has modules for tcp etc) and llvm ir
Caleb Jackson
The only right answer is COBOL. It looks strange, is a little verbose. But most importantly, lots of old banking software needs to be maintained, and only a handful of people in the world knows COBOL. You can earn some serious cash if you get a foot through the door.
You look at %%%a and tell me what the everloving fuck all of those %'s are doing there. Which devil/moron/madman designed batch?
Jayden Davis
You could consider Forth but it's so niche that people won't even know what's that. It's a cute stack-based language. It was popular with simple microprocessors because it fits stack machine well.
James Kelly
We all do.
Alexander Adams
remember, faggot, even though you're now going to look haskell up after reading this thread: you're still a brainlet
Lincoln Perez
The really exotic languages will also make people think that you are a weirdo. I think C and C++ are actually the most impressive to the majority.
Samuel Morris
Are we talking public majority, or majority of programmers? If it's the former, just make the background black, the text soft green, and program something that outputs some 3D plot.
>Prolog That's mandatory in college here. What a shit language. It's easy, but it's really not useful...
Jason Gonzalez
dis nigga postin' beans
Dylan Lee
>Asm will make people think you're a weirdo, not a genius. If you're trying to impress non-programmers, they will think you're a genius if you can ping google from the command line. Or possibly, open the command line. cd code optional. And they will think you're a weirdo regardless.
Programmers, either asm or Haskell.
John Nelson
You said not asm, but fuck you. Asm is definitely an impressive one, ESPECIALLY if its for a non-mainstream architecture.
Wyatt Robinson
Which version?
I've used mostly Ada83. It's the language that my Uni used to teach programming (80's to 90's). I've also used Ada95 a little.
Why is assembly out of consideration? What about Assembly using the most complex of all CISC architectures, VAX Assembly?
Adam Bennett
Idris. It's more intense than Haskell, and occasionally will require you to use an interactive theorem prover.
Nicholas Brown
APL
Carson Diaz
malboge
Adrian Davis
Prolog
Luis Gray
There is a video of that
Ian Thomas
Languages with an advance type system: Coq, Idris, Mercury, Haskell, etc. Languages that look inscrutable: APL, K, J, etc. Low-level languages if you actually master them: x86_64 assembly, C, Forth, GLSL. Huge fucking languages: C++, Scala, Common Lisp.
James Morris
SytemVerilog > VHDL > Verilog
Verilog is industry standard and common for ASICS. VHDL is more common in Europe and things contracted by the US Government, VHDL is also more common for FPGAs.. Verilog and VHDL usage has been falling in favor of SystemVerilog. Personally, VHDL is much nicer to use once you get used to the different syntax and static typing because there's some weird non-deterministic stuff that goes on with Verilog. SystemVerilog offers a lot more features than VHDL and Verilog and the synthesizable subset has most of the features of VHDL.