Best programming language

[Peter Otten]

Andrew Durdin wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:35:26 +0200, lopex <lopexx at autograf.pl> wrote:
>> 510046470588-0001 at t-online.de wrote:
>> >
>> > the best language is of course Scheme
>> 
>> Another flamewar ?
>> should I claim Ruby is.. ?
> 
> The obvious answer, of course, is that on the newsgroup/mailing list
> for language X, define "best programming language" to be X. It saves a
> lot of combustion :)

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/

suggests that between Befunge and BETA there is space for "Best" waiting to
be filled by an audacious developer. Good name for Python 3.0, maybe...

Peter