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Searching for the Best Scripting Language

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the less-filling!-tastes-great! dept.

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."

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  1. Where is the first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't wait to see how clever it is.

  2. Geek wants Goth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I'm trying to get out a rut. I'm a part-time junior sysadmin and my life is an empty, friendless mess. I'd like to try out the Goth scene and try to make a friend. Any of you guys have tips for a Goth noob? Can you recommend some websites or chat rooms friendly to Goth noobies?

    TIA,

    Michael "The Black Hole" Sims

  3. "shebang aware" by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess we won't be seeing any of this then?

  4. whee! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP > *

  5. fr1st p0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fr1st p0st!

  6. But.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can they still beat my honda hybrid ?

  7. Re:vbscript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    o man...
    that's a way too long post...
    HTML PERLScript IIS NN VB

    dude..

  8. Well, it's Saturday night... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    so how many of you are doing the knuckle shuffle on the ol' piss pump whilst downloading anime?

  9. Re:GNAA Reports Third Quater Profit of $200 millio by Defunkt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I never get sick of you guys.

    LIVE ON, GNAA!

  10. Re:Biased by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Blah, blah, blah...my gosh, you sound like my ex employer :-p

  11. Re:What about readability? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How about I burn you and fo'get I ever fucked yo mama? Dat shit's even mo embarrassing.