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Poll: If Yoda was a programmer, what would be his go-to language?

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What would Yoda program in?

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Pishky
Haskell for me I like the most. Hmmmmmm
jordhy
Definitely Lisp. That's where the force is.
Tarang
I'd imagine any language which is multi threaded and with plenty of race conditions, because he'd code that perfectly knowing it would work fine.
higherpurpose
Assembly, for using "raw force" and thinking about the fundamental principles of everything.
cgriswald
Program? Yoda would do whatever he needed to do by flipping bits in real time using the force.
gghootch
Definitely Assembly.

Luke: There's something not right here... I feel cold. Death.

Yoda: [points to a cave opening beneath a large tree] That place... is strong with the dark side of the Force. A domain of evil it is. In you must go.

Luke: What's in there?

Yoda: Only what you take with you.

smaudet
You forgot Clojure

Luke - Java ; Qui-Gon Jinn - C++ ; Obi-Wan Kenobi - Perl ; Ki-Adi Mundi - Assembly ; Mace-Windu - C ; Count Duku - D ; Anakin Skywalker - Python ; Aayala Secura - Haskell ; Darth Maul - Ocaml ; Darth Vader - TypeScript ; The Emperor - C# ;

And while we're codifying Star Wars: Imperial Trooper - Microsoft Word Rebel Soldier - MarkDown Han Solo - Counter Strike Leia - Matlab (maybe) Boba/Jango Fett (both of them) - Metasploit Chewbacca - Worms C3P0 - Siri R2D2 - info

cl8ton
C# obviously... do I win anything?
jqm
The poll left out the obvious choice. Binary.

"Do or do not. There is no try." -Yoda (and presumably no "except" block either").

Edit: reading the comments it appears someone beat me to the try-except joke.

ksmithbaylor
Go, because out-of-normal-order the type declarations are.
KhalilK
Avoid null behavior, Yoda will.

Java it is.

bitwize
Strong with the Forth Yoda would be. YODA TALK-LIKE IF FORTH USE THEN
dmux
Why isn't Perl listed?