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From: cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter)
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:19:40 +0200, Andrea Taverna
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>Hi folks!
>
>I'm a CS student and I often need to write number-crunching code dealing 
>with combinatorial optimization problems.
>What I do usually is implementing ad-hoc algorithms and testing their 
>performance against other previously-known solutions, including general 
>solvers.
>
>In the past I used C, but now I have decided to change language.
>I'm looking for a "better" one.
>
>Here follow the features it should have, ranked approximately by relevance:
>
>0) open-source support and an alive community
>1) directly compiled to efficient code
>2) statically typed and object-oriented, better if multi-paradigm
>3) general-purpose libraries (possibly standardized, either by standard 
>or de facto), including containers and some math abstractions.
>4) garbage collected. As an alternative, provide memory management 
>policies via libraries (e.g. memory pools and such)
>5) optional run-time checks and some kind of control over compilation 
>and low-level issues
>6) "relatively simple and consistent"
>
>So I have considered these alternatives: FreePascal, Eiffel, Ada and 
>Modula-3.
>I have taken a look at all of them and I'm still undecided. Below are 
>the impressions I got for each language.
>Can you help me? Feel free to recommend other languages as well.
>
>TIA

You might also consider modern fortran.

Richard Harter, cri@tiac.net
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