Which programming language

[Tiberius]

Why is it that every time I open a Java program my heart sinks to my shoes, because I know it will be slow as shit?

Are you joking? :S

Java 6 is only about twice as a slow as C++, and in terms of computer speeds, that's an unnoticeable value. It's slower because it has a JVM doing all the work, rather than running with machine code (not that there aren't compilers that reduce it down to machine code though). This is beneficial because you don't have to write different code for multiple platforms (or multiple hardware configurations), the language is typesafe, and it has no memory leaks because the memory management and garbage collection is all automated.

Thanks for all the advise everyone but I'm sticking with Delphi. It simply does everything I want it to and I can programme quickly as it's like a second language, which, I suppose it is

I thought you were looking for another language because Delphi is outdated? Don't give up...it takes barely any time at all to learn a programming language these days. I'd advise downloading Netbeans and giving Java a go, even if you just do a couple of the Sun tutorials: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/