Programming languages that don't suck

Lisp, Scheme and Haskell are the obvious ones. JavaScript is a nice language. C always has its place. C# might be the jewel of enterprise.

What else is there that /prog/ recommends? I've heard good things about ML. A language that seems interesting from its Wikipedia page is Self, but I'm not too sure about it.

>>31
You best be serious motherfucker.

>>33
C [...] its influence in software design and programming in general cannot be denied.
That's no excuse. What makes C good is that it is portable assembler, and assembler is often necessary.

I don't understand propping up Python and Ruby while taking a dump on Prolog. "A cat is fine too" applies here.

Regarding Lua, the fact is that it is better "glue script" than Python. Forget the language itself, have you used an app glued together with Python? It runs like garbage. Back in the day 1MHz was a lot, but our UIs actually had realtime response. Today, we don't have that any more with a thousandfold increase, and Python is batting way worse than average. Google is discouraging internal use of Python for this reason. (I could criticize the language itself, but I hardly care about what other people are willing to put up with in that regard.)