better programming language

[vhg119]

which programming language produces the
fastest programs?
most protable?
most functionality?
and is the most widely used?

[njcajun]

You really have to narrow it down and make trade-offs. It's not a cut and dry thing. Also, you're being quite general. If you really want an answer to that question, the answer is likely going to be something like 'assembly language'.

C makes very fast programs, but is not as portable, and not as clean to program in as, say...

Java, which is very portable, but not fast at all.

C++ falls somewhere in between the above two.

Python is awesome, but it's not very widely supported, and, like Java, not very fast.

Perl is fast, and portable, but it gets pretty messy if yer gonna write a large program.

If you just need something simple done, write a shell script. Can't beat it for ease of use.

[klamath]

What a troll. Read the copious technical documentation at any language website for an idea on the language's relative strengths and weaknesses (IIRC, they have some of this stuff @ python.org). But if you ask us, you'll just get our biased personal opinions.

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