a healthy hatred for C++ and Lisp

A lot of shit posting goes on about how C++ is a clusterfuck and Lisp is crap. While I know enough about both C++ and Lisp to see that they both have their niche, it is absolutely stupid to use these languages for general purpose programming when there are better alternatives, namely Delphi, Ada and D. Although Java and C# have a well deserved reputation for being safe, they are both slow and bloated and should only be used in enterprise programming. The fact that scripting languages like Python and Ruby get promoted as general purpose languages is even more of a farce as they have to rely on 'agile' test driven development to overcome the limits of dynamic (runtime) typing. Its a shame that Delphi died out, Borland ended up selling it to Embarcadero. It couldnt compete with VB in the 90s and got drowned out by Java and C# in the 2000s. Its really a fast compiled language, as fast as C++, but a lot safer. Its quite a shame people didnt take the time to see this languages potential.

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lisp is comparable to python, except it doesn't have the same level of a standard library and it has many more quirky language features and has no syntax. Lisp can easily be used for general purpose applications, and it's macro system allows it to adapt to general special purposes other general purpose languages might not be able to go to. But lisp cannot be used for the general population, and it will be easier to get a pool of Java developers than lispers. It's not that it isn't general purpose, it's that it isn't generally used.