Most powerful language

Most powerful language? Dovahzul.

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There are many languages that have their own power at place but i want know which language is more powerful in all respects..

New languages comes to birth continuously because there is no ultimate language that beat all others on every aspects.
I often need to add functionalities to Excel WorkSheets, I use VBA because it fits.
When I need a light weight database app, I use an xBase family language because i know it and I don't need more things. I use Harbour/xHarbour/xSharp, they open source cousins of Visual FoxPro.
I have no need for the last cutting edge language, anyway, in 6 months another one will be more cutting edge.
Anything depend on my needs.

Your choice will probably be the one your master the best.

Depends on your definition of "powerful". If speed is your thing, then you can't get any closer to the metal than Assembly Language. Not for the faint of heart!

I think the answer you're looking for is: C++.

Why? Because it produces arguably the fastest running assemblies on most platforms because it is not dependent on a framework like .NET or Java (although java and .net guys may argue about this a bit). It is arguably the fastest high level language available that still offers classes, and is still one of the most popular and sought after language skills.

C++ guys will tell you that most software is still written in C++ and get insulted if you don't agree. Lol.

Because of it's speed, popularity and flexibility it is still the language of choice for game developers, if that tells you anything.

Everyone here has their own preference, and will give you a different answer for their own reasons. Mine is C#, because while I was a Microsoft my team used C# and I grew to love it. If I had been in one of the Windows OS teams, I would probably feel the same about C++.

But lets be honest here... what everyone here is thinking is: This is the language I'm telling you about (or I'm refusing to propose a language) because I DON'T want to admit that I think you want me to give the obvious choice: C++.

So... yeah.

C++.

-Pete

PS: Someone above mention that Assembly is faster, and of course that's true. Because Assembly is maybe the lowest level programming language, there is also a steep learning curve involved and development in Assembly is not rapid at all.

Depends on the application that you are trying to develop. In general C++ is powerful and fast. If your application involves heavy duty numerical calculation, then FORTRAN is the most powerful. Java if you have an Internet application.