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Any decent modern general-purpose languages?

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-25 10:55

Assembly: Unportable. No standardised syntax.
Classical Visual Basic: Some good parts. Shit overall.
C: Shitty standard library. Deficient type system. Can't into Unicode. ``Unportable assembly.''
D and C++: Obfuscated boilerplate languages.
Java and C#: Forced OOP.
Common Lisp: Archaic cons-based library. Writing complex macros is a PitA due to the unlispy quotation syntaxes.
Scheme: CL without namespaces.
Clojure and Erlang: Concurrency is unneeded outside of a few very specific applications. Parallelism is where it's at.
OCaml: Great language, only one, deficient, implementation.
Haskell: Academic sex toy.
Forth: Reinventing the wheel over and over.
Ruby: Implicit declarations. Slow as fuck.
Python: Implicit declarations. FioC.
Perl: Brain damage.
PHP: Pretty much shit.
JavaScript: "" == false

It's impossible to list them all but, please, what decent modern general-purpose languages exist?

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-04 7:51

OCaml actually has a second implementation: F#. Considering it's Microsoft's, it really isn't that much better than the INRIA one but it does have some pros for real world use. Like Unicode support.

Otherwise, polymorphic, strongly typed, higher order, functional, right-to-left call-by-value is the best "modern GP language" has to offer now.

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