question for /prog/

can programming languages be better than other ones?

is there a best programming language

LITHPu!

①yes and no
②japanese is the best language for everything

Oberon-07 is the most beautifully designed language ever
FreePascal is the most useful one

I'm using C as the bottom line reference. It seems to be the worst I have ever tried

Yes. It's known as using the right tool for the job. Different tools do different jobs so therefore, there are tools that do perform worse at their job and there are others that perform better.

>>5

there must be one that's better than all others though, right?

Ruby is the best language for everything.

Sent from my iPhone.

>>7
u mena OBJECTIVE C???

In all seriousness, all Turing complete languages are equal. It's only a matter of which one you're most comfortable using. Google Go, Javascript, and Assembly are all equivalent. I have a PhD in Computer Science from MIT. I know what I'm talking about.

>>4
I actually have yet to read any Oberon code but I'm quite eager to. You reminded me I gotta get on that!

>>8
1/10. Go back to sucking your moms dick.

>>8
Equivalent in what they can compute, but that doesn't mean that one is as useful than another. If there's no input/output facility, a turing-complete language is pretty useless.

>>11
Who needs I/O? You just read the tape after it halts if it halts.

>>12
Tape? Well there you have I/O. Not every turing-complete programming language need to have a tape in the way a turing machine has one.

Imagine a variant of brainfuck that didn't have the . instruction (print) or it had no effect, and the , instruction (read) always returned zero, or a random value. The language would still be turing-complete, but you wouldn't be able to know any computed value. You'd only know whether it halted or hadn't halted yet.