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		cageface on June 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google paper comparing performance of C++, Java, S... True, but this is one of the reasons people choose to code in C++. The quality of tools & common libraries is as much a factor in language selection as the syntax and semantics of the language itself.

nimrody on June 3, 2011 [–]

You mean - "forced to use C++" :)

I would love to use Digital Mars D or Scala for scientific applications if they had compilers/runtimes as good as C++.

Perhaps one day the LLVM backend would be useful as a universal backend for many less popular languages.

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