Which programming language fits the term "general purpose language" the most?
A language that lets you do so much with it that you theoretically never need to use another language again.
Which programming language fits the term "general purpose language" the most?
Josiah Ortiz
Jace Richardson
If you include the ecosystem built around it: C#
If you don't: C
Ryder Mitchell
lisp
Jonathan Wilson
>If you don't: C
bullshit if linux was written in pascal forth or something c would be irelevant.
Elijah Thompson
c#, but you need to sell your soul to MS
Isaac Phillips
Do you consider inline assembly to be in your chosen language or not? If so, then any natively compiled, self-hosting language should do. If not, then assembly for an architecture you expect to last for the next 50+ years.
Cameron Campbell
C++
Ayden Gomez
>can't even do webshit
Clojure or Nim
David Nelson
rust
Tyler Cruz
fortran and lisp
Matthew Rodriguez
Fuck off man
Nathan Watson
Java
Jack Wright
Common Lisp
Wyatt Wilson
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Caleb Davis
Pretty much all of em nowadays
Libraries get ported to everything and unless you're doing an OS, you can do everything with any modern language.
You can do a well performing, fully featured application in freaking free basic
Joshua Murphy
Pretty much only (common) lisp is a truly general language. All others have arbitrary constraints on the programmer, static syntax and 90% of languages have a single implementation that targets only some platforms.
CL is a dynamic and adaptable language, so you can do almost anything in it. The only thing it'd have a problem with is doing some low level stuff like direct memory references I guess.
Lincoln Collins
Ruby
Ethan Morgan
Python and Javascript are the only answers.
Javascript is so big that you can use it in frontend, backend, mobile, database, etc.
Anything else is either a meme or bad joke.
Chase Russell
Why niggers are saying lisp? You literally only use it with that bloated text editor.
Jack Gray
Java would be the case 10 years ago. Now java is a shadow of what once it was and an example of mistakes made in the industry.
Nathan Taylor
c# because thats what unity uses and thats how i make my money
Josiah Rogers
good mornings sir
Eli Hall
beef, C, C# & C++ in one lang