@Sunstorm said:
One of my requirements is that I'm able to produce a GUI because my users don't appreciate the eliteness from the whole 'type commands into a console' philosophy that most algorithmic/scientific/scholar programs (and the programming languages they're commonly done in) usually follow.
Either that, or it should allow for web development (I've been curious about Rails for a while now).
So I'm wondering if any of those languages are capable of supporting a GUI of whatever kind. If they don't have that flexibility, then I can't rate them as "better", since they are useless to me.
Any language which can do stdin and stdout and read from environment variables can support a GUI. There's this thing called CGI...
Andrew.