Hello everyone,

I am working on a project related to helping the everyday researcher do his/her programming easier and faster.

I have done a fair amount of research work at OSU and have gotten a feel for the way they program on a daily basis, but realize that it could be and probably is drastically different on different parts of the planet. As such, I am here to ask the following questions (really, any opinion helps, so feel free to respond with whatever you want):

1) What is/are your language(s) of preference? (e.g. MATLAB/Octave, Fortran, C, C++, Java, Python, etc.)
2) Do you use a certain programming style? (e.g. procedural, object-oriented, etc.)
3) What, if anything, is cumbersome with what you use now?