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Andrea,

Sorroy for beeing late to reply, here is my little contribution.

I would like to say that if you are mainly to deal with algorithmics,
you may also add Lisp to your list (not joking, althought these words
together are a bit funny I know).

Here is an article I deeply agree with, except in some aspects :
http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html

Well, the limitation is that if you need to be aware of some real-
world aspects, like the fact that no machine has an infinite register
width, then Lisp may not be the best solution (the author seems to
forget sometime about real-life).

But it your main scope is complexe structures and =93 intelligent =94 and
plastic-malleable algorithms, then Lisp may be a good idea, while it
would not be if data typing and real life range-limitations is one of
your concern (as an exemple).

Note: if I'm not wrong, there is a plan to add some lambda-expressions
like stuff in the next Ada revision (at least something which made me
think it was a bit looking like).