Add your own opinion (if you'd like) to make the rankings even more relevant/accurate. Thoughts?
What are the "best" (productivity-enhancing, well-designed, and concise, rather than popular or time-tested) programming languages? - Slant
Add your own opinion (if you'd like) to make the rankings even more relevant/accurate. Thoughts?
What are the "best" (productivity-enhancing, well-designed, and concise, rather than popular or time-tested) programming languages? - Slant
Moved flame bait to GD board.
When you realise that programming languages are just tools, you can stop worrying and just pick the right one for the job at hand.
Otherwise, it's just two carpenters arguing whether a saw / knife / chisel is 'best' for cutting wood.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
There are no productivity-enhancing, well-designed and concise programming languages in existence today.Originally Posted by joelster
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
Languages arn't tools; they're materials.
Python would be if it were compiled to machine code (not bytecode or JIT)
that list is diarrhea IMO
You can add to the list, and vote down languages you don't like.
Maybe add static typing on the way too
I wouldn't be opposed to that, but at the same time I like to think of it as similar to the auto keyword from C++11. I haven't really found lack of static typing to be a nuisance. I thought it would be for when you have to pick apart data, but I've become very familiar with the struct pack/unpack functions from the Python stdlib.Maybe add static typing on the way too
Relevant to this discussion, I think what I find important in a programming language is:
- size/functionality/provisions of standard library
- built-in support for different data structures/containers, e.g. arrays, lists, whatever (either direct syntax or through std lib)
- performance
- code readability
- friendly string manipulation functionality, i.e. I don't like having to use strcat in C, I like being able to simply have a built-in operator for readability
- portability and standardization
Done! Diarrhea is added. When you all go to vote for it, be sure to add an appropriate "pro".
Last edited by Yarin; 05-23-2016 at 10:39 AM.
You might like Nim. It's compiled, and has a very Pythonic syntax.
