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Most Sophisticated programming language?

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CubanPete

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Well i've only really done some VB, Python, Java and C#

I personally like C#, mainly because i was forced to do java due to my University course and C# has better ... er, well interfaces i suppose and seams to include things that java makes difficult.

If you want to get into Object Orientated Programmign i would suggest starting with Java, cause its VERY formal in the way you write the syntax i found it easy to learn C# after java, and i also appriciated the features it includes over java more. Also java is still around 10x slower at executing programs compared with C++ where as with C#, its hard to tell the difference

C++ i havent done but practically everything is written in C++, the problem is that its TOO flexable which can lead to bad programming techniques

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Can anyone please explain why c++ is sophisticated? It and c are my fav but hardly "sophisticated". C++ is nice and everything but isn't quite in line with academic paradigms and ideas. It's from a generation ago, is very practical and everything but just isn't full of sophisticated crap. It's very plain.

Obviously assembly and machine code are so far away you'd be a fool to mention something like that. They hardly provide any help to the programmer or follow any sort of modern paradigm. It's fun as hell though for embedded systems.

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By this i mean the one which you can do the most things with!

he? most of programming languages have the same power, so there's just not a right answer. if you wish you can code any programmable algorith using turing's machine. Why are you asking it? Want to learn programming and want to start with a 'trendy' language?

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Second what is the newest programming language and the language of future?

newest? god only knows... propably during every course of languages semantics students develop quite a few more ;) at least we did. and that there are no compilers? who cares? :p

language of the future? the one, that people will be programming in :) this does not implies the best language around.

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Can anyone please explain why c++ is sophisticated? It and c are my fav but hardly "sophisticated". C++ is nice and everything but isn't quite in line with academic paradigms and ideas. It's from a generation ago, is very practical and everything but just isn't full of sophisticated crap. It's very plain.

Templates, iterator-orientated containers, STL. A lot of people call C++ sophisticated because the language scares them; template-metaprogramming can be scary indeed.

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Can anyone please explain why c++ is sophisticated? It and c are my fav but hardly "sophisticated". C++ is nice and everything but isn't quite in line with academic paradigms and ideas. It's from a generation ago, is very practical and everything but just isn't full of sophisticated crap. It's very plain.

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Maybe because it's native code? Academics seem now to teach more Java, C# and other high level runtime languages, from my experience anyway. Although C# and other runtime languages are my favorite to program with, I know that it has nowhere near the power that C/C++ has. C++ is native to the processor, can access hardware, better interaction with the operating system, and can be used to develop drivers and other low level programs; options that many runtime languages are far from capable of. Sure there are other nice native programming languages, but C++ is industry standard, if that can be used to explain "sophisticated."

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From a purely abstract point of view C++ isn't very at all which is why i love it. Computer science however is worried about theory, paradigms, relations, and all that yummy stuff. C++ has stl, and oop, and exceptions but many other languages are way more "sophisticated" at keeping to the whole academic theme. Java is popular enough in industry and is much more in line with OOP which is why they use it at universities.

As a side note: the best way to learn operating systems and programming is not doing a database like every ****ing computer science class but to write a real-time program for some unix that deals with hardware like robots over a couple of weeks. Playing with the thing itself is much more rewarding than looking at it on paper or making yet another database.

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