best programming language

[hitai]

let me just get straight to the point....

what is the most suitable language to use for creating a word processing application that runs under the windows platform? The other constraint is that the application must be unicode based

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[Andreas Masur]

Based on the above description...basically every language... ;)

[hitai]

interesting....hehe....

so i can even use languages like Java. wat a surprise

[Andreas Masur]

What I meant was simply, that you description is pretty broad... ;)

[RoboTact]

And why would you assume language like Java presumably unsuitable? It may be even better at some points as it's cross-platform solution.

[Yves M]

Java and .NET are a good option. They both handle Unicode as factory default and .NET has a lot of nice Unicode helper classes that come in handy when parsing strings. I guess Java too.

A few years ago I would have said C++/VB but that's unfortunately a dead end. Pure C++ is also possible, however it will be harder unless you're already familiar with C++.

[jack.dingler]

Java and .NET are a good option. They both handle Unicode as factory default and .NET has a lot of nice Unicode helper classes that come in handy when parsing strings. I guess Java too.

A few years ago I would have said C++/VB but that's unfortunately a dead end. Pure C++ is also possible, however it will be harder unless you're already familiar with C++.

What makes C++ a dead end? Has Microsoft announced they're dropping support for it?