Picking a language for general purpose or hacking(most diverse)

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what is a good scripting/programming for general purpose or hacking to master.used C/C++,C#, Php, Python,Obj-C,Javascript,Java,python and ruby a bit.but i seem to be feel like there's something always missing. i am looking for a batteries include,good community and flexible to code with. any idea?

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Python. Really, it has everything you probably need for whatever scripting you're doing, and plenty of stdlib and community to go around. If you're looking for something different try a Lisp or maybe Haskell but nothing really beats Python for simple scripting (except shell, of course, which has easy access to everything on your computer…)

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Common Lisp. http://cliki.net/Getting+Started Scheme. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Hmm Lisp, I will give That a try while I study python. Doesn't hurt to try. thanks @informatimago also a question do you think clojure is a good alternative? huge lib for the language because of all the jars out thier

You can have access to jar libs from Common Lisp with ABCL too. http://abcl.org/

cool i will check it out,thanks

I do like the language a lot, maybe I will do that.it just a lot of the people liked it. I'm not the following the coward type. maybe I will master this. it just sometimes it's hard and crazy out there trying to find one for you :)

also any thoughts on lua or ruby lua: lightweight ruby: joy of coding

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