What do you feel is the best programming language to parse a large amount of data, using the least amount of memory? When I mean a large amount of data, I am talking about two-three terabytes of logs, within a reasonable time.

I do computing at college, and we use Visual Basic 6 or C++ or .net, alot of top programs have been designed on these. Might be worth looking at, they are pretty easy to grasp as they are third-generation

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hmmm, well depends what OS, what scenario, how much data, and what you have availible to you really. more details would most probably help on this one

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C++ is the easiest by far to learn. It is the most common language to learn and has many tutorials online.

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C++ is great, but its getting old. I now use C# over it, though it has slower runtime.

Rob will be the first person to tell you that Java is an excellent, powerful language, I don't know it personally though.

So yeah, go C++ or Java for this job,

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im learning visual basic and trust me, it is a HORRIBLE language, my suggestion is java or c++

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go with java, simply because its interpreted and because you won't need to modify it too much between operating systems, or recompile it for each platform.

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java probably isnt the best choice because it hides away all those things like pointers, which i imagine will be useful.

any of the C family will probably do the trick, its down to the compiler as much as the language.

i'd suggest going with whichever language of the C family that your most comfortable with

For large data sets C or C++ will probably be your best bet. Since Java is runs using bytecode, it'll be a little slower. However, Java much more portable than the C family. It'll depend on what your preference is. For large datasets, or mathmatical problems, I would stay away from interpreted languages, although Numpy is pretty good.

I think java is cool but you wou.d be better with c++

CPP, of course.
If you're talking about 2-3 terabytes of data, you will need a REALLY good algorithm for the task.