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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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balson expounded in news:4BA8BA91.4050905@cherrystonesoftware.com:

> Andrea Taverna wrote:
>> Hi folks!
> [snip]
>> 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"
> 
>      Where's performance on this list?  

Performance is mentioned in "1) directly compiled to efficient 
code".

> IOW, stay away from the likes of Java, C#, Pascal. Unless you
> have a 
> very specific reason for going in that direction. Your performance
> will suffer.
> Jim

I don't think many people would be surprised by these results.
After all Java, C# and Pascal (variants) are still largely 
interpreted  languages, even if they use some sort of compiled 
intermediate code.

But each "tool" has its own place in the toolbox.

Warren