(02-02-2011, 10:56 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: I did actionscript in highschool (and visualbasic). And although making games was cool it's not really good for making general purpose applications. I prefer C++ over them but then again I haven't tried java or C# yet to I might end up liking them better. I only have one friend who's a programmer and he LOVES C#. He talks about like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, so I suppose I should try it at some point.
I do C# for a living and I LOVE IT. It IS the greatest thing since sliced bread. I am insanely productive in C#. I spend most of my time designing beautiful constructs and clever algorithms to solve real-world problems that I face when tasked with application development.
I do C++ only when forced to if I feel the desire to improve some open-source Wii emulator software. I LOATHE IT. I am insanely counterproductive in C++. I spend most of my time hunting down idiotic bugs that are caused by failures that happened thousands of instructions ago with no clear traceable path back to the actual cause.