Discussion on: Which programming languages do you use and why?

1. BASIC: Nothing else available on my 1st computer.
2. Pascal: Same reason.
3. Logo: Turtle graphics and recursion were kinda fun.
4. C: Performance. Used it at the university, later on the job.
5. FORTRAN: There was a course at my university and I had to do some numerical math at that time.
6. Unix Shell scripting (bash): Useful. Still use it sometimes.
7. C++: Thought that OOP was cool. Still my main language but for other reasons.
8. Java: Was hot at that time. Still a good choice to get the job done.
9. Python: Less verbose than Java. Makes many things really easy. Never had a chance to use it professionally though.
10. C++11,14,17: Huge leaps forward from old style C++.
11. Scheme (Racket): SICP, wanted to learn something new.
12. Javascript: Well, few people can avoid it. Actually I think it's not that bad.
13. C#: Had to use it in a project. Nice to get things done on Windows desktop.
14. Haskell: Thinking functional is very helpful. Still learning.
15. Future plans: Don't know. Maybe Go or Rust.

The ones I use regularly are C++ (including 11, 14 etc.), Java, C, Javascript, C# and Bash scripting.