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Searching for the Best Scripting Language
prostoalex writes "Folks at the Scriptometer conducted a practical survey of which scripting language is the best. While question like that is bound to generate flamewars between the usual Perl vs PHP, Python vs Perl, VBScript vs everything crowds, the Scriptometer survey is practical: if I have to write a script, I have to write it fast, it has to be small (less typing), it should allow me to either debug itself via a debugger or just verbose output mode. sh, Perl and Ruby won the competition, and with the difference of 1-2 points they were essentially tied for first place. Smalltalk, tcc, C# and Java are the last ones, with Java being completely unusable in scripting environment (part of that could be the fact that neither Java nor C# are scripting languages). See the 'Hello world' examples and the smallest code examples. Interesting that ICFP contests lately pronounced OCaml as the winner for rapid development."
Welcome to v1.0 of the new scripting language known as SpellCheck.
"difinitive" should be "definitive"
By the same vendor, welcome to a preliminary alpha field test of a semantic analyzyer of "bozo posts".
A definitive answer has nothing to do with an objective question.
Perhaps you meant "an objective answer has nothing to do with a subjective question"?
In the future, please don't be in such a hurry to see your postings appear on the first screen; use the [preview] button or the free versions of either pieces of software.
P.S.
Thank-you for playing and come back soon.
I will, never, never, NEVER, understand how
PERL became as popular as it has. It is just
an atrocious and awful language.
gnaa
;)
other good stuff
catch!
poop
ejoy.