C's not a bad choice but it's worth mentioning that the last time I installed Ubuntu (admittedly it's been a while) there where three versions of GCC installed

C's not a bad choice but it's worth mentioning that the last time I installed Ubuntu (admittedly it's been a while) there where three versions of GCC installed automatically, but none of the damn library files (wtf is up with that anyway?). Not a major deal to go fetch the library files but even so...