The fastest programming language for development

ProgrammerGuy · May 24, 2007

Just wondering your opinion of which is the fastest programming language to run through data?

dcraig · May 24, 2007

Unless you can frame a more specific question, there is no answer.

Faster for what ? - development or execution.

What sort of data ?

etc etc

Wayne Gibbous · May 24, 2007

Probably very much depends on just what you are used to, but I've programmed in MANY languages over the years and good ole Visual Basic gets my vote for "ease of programming".

Snobs may snicker, but if you can't bang out most programming tasks quickly in VB, you ain't tryin'! (type casting/conversions? screw it, just let VB handle it!

)

Good trading to all.

mtwokay · May 25, 2007

Quote from ProgrammerGuy:

Just wondering your opinion of which is the fastest programming language to run through data?

If you're referring to processing data C or C++ should be sufficient for most tasks but for simplicity or ease of use, VB or C# will get you there a lot faster.

Tintin92 · May 25, 2007

Quote from ProgrammerGuy:

Just wondering your opinion of which is the fastest programming language to run through data?

If you dont want to reinvent, maybe the fastest way to develop is just to use a open source software.

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here :
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traderdragon2 · May 25, 2007

Assembly, then pure C.

lilboy716 · May 25, 2007

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osorico · May 25, 2007

Quote from traderdragon2:

Assembly, then pure C.

With no clarification from the OP, this IS the answer to the OPs question.

As an aside, I recently stumbled on a freeware GUI "scripting" language named AutoIt. This bastard rocks! If you like VB, you'll like this. Almost 100% functionality of VB (no DDE tho

) and creates real exe's with no runtimes needed! Great stuff. Check it out.

http://www.autoitscript.com/

Osorico

kiwi_trader · May 25, 2007

Quote from osorico:

With no clarification from the OP, this IS the answer to the OPs question.

As an aside, I recently stumbled on a freeware GUI "scripting" language named AutoIt. This bastard rocks! If you like VB, you'll like this. Almost 100% functionality of VB (no DDE tho ) and creates real exe's with no runtimes needed! Great stuff. Check it out.

http://www.autoitscript.com/

Osorico

If you like that then check out autohotkey as well. They're great.

Rodney King · May 25, 2007

Quote from Wayne Gibbous:

Probably very much depends on just what you are used to, but I've programmed in MANY languages over the years and good ole Visual Basic gets my vote for "ease of programming". Snobs may snicker, but if you can't bang out most programming tasks quickly in VB, you ain't tryin'! (type casting/conversions? screw it, just let VB handle it!

.. It's hard to know where to begin to answer "what's the best? There's no "best programming language"; it's highly dependent on user skills, specific language implementation, available libraries, and the problem domain under consideration. Certainly VB (or even Liberty Basic) has its merits for beginners, although probably a better answer for non-professional programmers, nowadays, is to learn Python (it's the new VB, in a certain sense) for general programming and learn one of the math/stats programming environments (SPLUS/R, Matlab, Gauss, et al) for price-data testing and analysis. As to "type casting? screw it", one can broadly say none of the modern "scripting" languages require it either.