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.
this is sort of a troll post, but Im bored and will respond anyway
Delphi Shit, not cross platform, no maintained libraries; legacy
Delphi is just Object Pascal. You dont even need to use Delphi anymore, you can use Lazarus which is crossplatform and open source.
Ada Shit, awful to use,
totally wrong. there is a reason they use this language to make flight avionics, because it is the most explicity correct and provably correct language.
D Shit, there is only one compiler for it; this will be the case forever until there are zero
there is only one compiler for Python, Ruby, Lua, etc, that doesnt stop people from using it.
. No. Neither Delphi, Ada, or D even come close to C++ compiled with the lowest optimization switch.
thats just a myth that gets perpetuated by the same people who think assembly is the fasted of all languages and no one can make a high level language run faster than assembly.
You are wrong. Delphi, Ada, and D are the niche languages. You must be one of those "I never learned C++ properly so I'll just believe the FUD surrounding it" faggots.
Would you say that to Ken Thomposon? Because Ken Thompson invented the Go language for the exact same reason that D was developed. Go is basically C with garbage collection. Would you like to tell Ken Thompson he never learned C++ properly?