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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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.

Ada is the only one that comes close to the execution speed of C++. If the shitty abstraction abilities and lack of libraries were not enough to avoid it, the government uses it. D and (especially) Pascal compile to horrendously slow code. Maybe with a commercially supported D compiler, optimization may be closer to those of C++ compilers, but I just don't see this happening. If you use one of these languages in 2012, you'll just be harming yourself or whoever has to maintain the code later. Choose C++ or Java for general purposes. Don't be that faggot who just has to use something different for the sake of being different.