Your question is ill-posed. None of these languages are inherently terrible. Terrible languages don't appear in lists like this. If you have a very specific pr

Your question is ill-posed. None of these languages are inherently terrible. Terrible languages don't appear in lists like this. If you have a very specific problem that you need to solve, it may be that one language or another is an especially bad choice. But in general all of them work. Indeed, the four which you cite are more similar than different. Many people would agree that C++ is a relatively poor choice of language for most "web development" projects, and yet there are many fine web-based systems built in C++. The original Amazon.com was written in C++ and it didn't exactly fail: http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture