Originally Posted by Bubba
Some of you who think a language is just more semantics, rules, etc. need to look at the assembly underneath of it all. After you learn assembly you will realize that C/C++ and assembly are very close, easy to mix, and you can do just about anything in both languages (except write bootstraps in C).
The way I see it from an assembly standpoint, I don't think you can get any closer to assembly performance wise than C/C++. The way C/C++ handles stacks, memory, pointers, objects, etc, etc. is very close to the way assembly does.