Best language in 160 characters or less

May 11th, 2008

After tweeting back and forth with a friend of mine over what language to use for our next project, I came up with a idea I want to try for our readers. Everyone is a fanboy of one language or another. What I want to do is challenge each of you to tell me “What language is the best and why?” in 160 characters or less (a single tweet). Post them in either a comment or send them to my twitter. I will then post the best and most creative ones in a post later this week. Also I would like to thank the HardOCP and Digg community for the recent traffic influx.

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12 Responses to “Best language in 160 characters or less”

jstad Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

Ruby is the Merlin of development. Hiding his power until it’s absolutely necessary to use, then blows your mind.

Chris Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

Java because is the only language that I really know and therefore is the best.

Tony Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

Not actually mine, but a quote by James Stroud (an excerpt of under 160 characters):

Scheme is hard to understand and takes a long time to get used to, so its perfect as a learning tool–to make the professors look smarter.

clint rutkas Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

c#, it has the power of dynamic languages, sql(linq), and the user base to boot. it constantly has new items being added to it and can do the web, desktop, and even be used to create javascript with script#. did i mention with mono it can do linux too?

jstad Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

Java because it is that old guy you keep spitting at when you fly by on Rails. Must be worth something if he can put up with that beating.

kinghajj Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:23 pm

Lisp, because it can implement itself in itself and allows you to make powerful, elegant abstractions.

Tony Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 1:12 am

Binary (as in direct CPU instructions), because you know things better than the compiler.

Nick Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 1:28 am

PHP because its so easy a beginner can pick it up, while experts can really turn some magic.

Luke Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 5:18 am

ColdFusion is best because you need less code to do more faster. Tag based syntax looks and feels like web. - (107)

Kyle Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

html… myspace stalker’s best friend.

Nikita P Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

VB.NET it’s simple and intelliSence rocks, and I can still build my apps just as fast as the C# guys do, and more elegant than PHP,CF or Apex + I can do Silverlight.