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.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

>>54
That's not *terrible*, though. It's like complaining about a language because they used do...end instead of {...}.

>>55
I'm sure he was just being polite and not calling them out for being the gigantic faggots they are, since that would be disrespectful towards that great computer science faggot who killed himself.

>>55
It's dumb because everything else that you ever would want to work with already uses zero, so you're stuck dealing with both kinds of behavior and end up having to either document what functions expect a one-based index and what ones expect a zero-based index, or do a bunch of adjustments everywhere to appease some asshole who at one point thought it'd be a great fucking idea to start arrays at one, and go back on it now because that would take admitting that it was a goddamn dumb idea.

>>56
There's a big difference between just being gigantic faggots, and being stupid faggots. Lua's development team is comprised of the latter.

>>57
Most of the lua development team realizes that moving to 0-based arrays now would break just about all the current code around today, and probably cause an untold number of headaches for all of their users. It's not because they think they're smarter than Dijkstra.