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.

Java
well deserved reputation for being safe
While I don't know much about the language itself I can assure you that Java de facto is pretty much one of the un-safest language that ever existed. I can't tell you if it's just the runtime that's being badly done or the widespread use that makes it so interesting for exploitation but if safety is an issue, you shouldn't be using Java. In fact, you shouldn't be using Java at all.

But yes, Delphi is actually quite usable and it's sad it's not being used anymore.