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On 18 Jul., 16:19, Andrea Taverna <a.tavs.NOS...@libero.it.invalid>
wrote:
> 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.

Did you take a look at Seed7?

Greetings Thomas Mertes

Seed7 Homepage:  http://seed7.sourceforge.net
Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements
and operators, abstract data types, templates without special
syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed,
interpreted or compiled, portable, runs under linux/unix/windows.