Due to severe brain damage

you are only able to learn one programming language ever.

Which one do you pick?

Lisp. I'll try to live without assembly.

>>1
Being a brain damaged I'll choose java.

R5RS.

A lot of languages share common semantics and sometimes even syntax. If you know a language with enough features, you can learn plenty of other languages in much less time. I'd probably go with Common Lisp, but I wouldn't mind also knowing C and assembly. I don't think brain-damage could make you incapable of learning only one language, but some specific types of brain damage could make you incapable of retaining long-term memory (for example, if one were to lose their Hippocampus, they wouldn't be capable of LTP, but they would probably be able to form more low-level memories such as motor skills as well as being able to recollect previously learned memories/skills), so you would merely retain the knowledge you learned prior to the brain damage.

MORE LIKE
C
CAUSE EVERY OTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS WRITTEN IN IT
AMIRITE LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLZzz!!11oNE!!1ONE1!

CAUSE EVERY OTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS WRITTEN IN IT
I just love this argument.

Even assemblers.

C is still more wisely used by a huge margin. Just because you "enterprise" developers don't use it (despite the infrastructure of your managed languages being written in C and C++) doesn't change that.

Within a generation, it'll be in the same class as FORTRAN - only used to support legacy apps.

Yeah right. What are you going to write your kernels in? What are you going to use for those millions if not billions of microcontrollers that will still be in use that can't run a JVM? What exactly are you going to write your VMs and interpreters in? Right, they will have to be written in a C or C++ and assembly.

Nothing is as fast as C, not even C.

as fast as C, is usually as fast as asm libraries and architecture-specific includes get.

>>9
Yeah right. What are you going to write your kernels in?
Lisp?

>>9
No, you don't understand: popularity doesn't imply quality. C and C++ suck, we still use them because Unix, which was never meant to be popular or widely used in, well, everything, and Unix-like systems are ubiquitous.

C and C++ are not low-level, they are not ``near to the metal'', they don't give you control on what's going on, segfaults, pointers, and underspecified semantics are not low-level, accessing the OS API is not low-level. The shitty, unhelpful standard library, and the inexistent string data-type are not low-level.

``As fast as C'' means nothing, C and C++ are not fast by design, compilers, optimizers made them fast. Hell, they managed to make JS go fast, do you think they can't optimize those two shitty languages? Compilers spend most of the time optimizing your code.

>>13
Please don't feed the trolls!

I was referring to >>13 kun!

Don't feed >>13 kun!

>>14-16
Get out of my /prog/, ``please''.

Severe brain damage?  Java.

>>17
Ignore this person! He means to destroy you!

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>>13
Pointers, motherfucker, have you heard about them?  Like, totally low level, esp. the way C does it.
Also the way C handles strings is SO LOW LEVEL that if you to get ANY LOWER you'd be making your strings in the FUCKING GROUND.
So take your OPTIMIZING COMPILER and shove it deep inside your VAGINA.

C, then I'd just re-implement everything else.

>>21
IHBT.

>>23
Go kill yourself.

>>24
お前もなー

Trick question.

There is no such thing as being capable of learning only a single language. If you can effectively learn any one turing complete language, you necessarily have the faculties to learn every turing complete language.

The only answer then is BBCoed.

I don't always brain damage

But when I do, I Visual Basic.

HTML obviously u noobs if u hav no internet u cant redistribute ur other programs so wat good is it lol

>>28
dream weaver l o l