Earlier quoted context omitted.
If line noise, conflation of initialization and allocation, needing to box primitives for something as simple as an array, inability to pass functions, inability to define operators, and inability to overload operators, are it's best parts I'd hate to see the parts designed by committee. Any language that forces me to write BigNum five = new BigNum(5); BigNum seven = new BigNum(7); BigNum fiftyFive = five.add(seven).…
What's your perfect language? I'm genuinely interested.
My fav language is F# (preferred over OCaml because of VS and the #light syntax), but for webdev I usually use ruby/RoR because of the functionality available through gems. Making facebook/twitter integration work on ASP.NET MVC was more work than it should be last time I tried, and I hate all the hoops you have to jump through to make jQuery / json work with ASP.NET. Mostly I like F# because of the pipe and composition operators, inferred typing, records, active patterns, and a very succinct way of defining classes.
Pipe Operator:
Seq.init 100 (fun x -> x*2)
|> Seq.reduce (+)
Composition operator:
let add x y = x+y
let mul x y = x*y
let addFiveMultiplyBy20 = add 5 >> mul 20
type User(firstName,lastName,email) =
property x.Name.get = x.firstName + x.lastName
let user1 = new User("Foo","Bar","foo@bar.com")
let user2 = new User(42,24,new EmailAddress("foo@bar.com"))
let (+) (x:string) (y:int) = x + y.ToString();
let (+) (x:int) (y:string) = x.ToString() + y;
let user3 = new User(42,"Bar","foo@bar.com");