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Thank you all for the comments! It's just that I'm a bit tired of CLR/JVM/scripting/functional languages and I'm itching to try a nice compiled one. 
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Short analysis:
CLR is compiled unless you play with Dynamic etc and even then, compiled...
JVM => I DO NOT CARE TO BOTHER MY SELF .
SCRIPTING => well, some scripting languages could be compiled or live in both worlds
FUNCTIONAL => FUNCTIONAL CAN BE COMPILED! Is just language feature...
Please, update your comments .
Well in general, if you have itching, you should scratch it a little .
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Good to know the details, thanks. I guess I should've phrased my comment something like this:
"I would like to learn a compiled language that doesn't run on the .Net platform. It should not run on the JVM either. It should be able to produce standalone executable files unlike the Python and Ruby scripting languages that I like and sometime use. It should be an imperative language (with OO features preferably, but not required). The language's name should not be C or C++. VB6 here I come! I don't actually itch. [1]"
[1] Although I may start if I actually get close to a machine with a VB6 compiler on it.
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I'm always looking for new ways to immature. I find that every girl's crazy bout a sharp dressed man.
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A friend of mine gives Go and D a whirl every other year or two. He always ends up rage quitting after a few weeks because of one or more of the following:
0) NIH syndrome about non *nix platforms
1) Obnoxious community members
2) Broken/missing bits of the language that don't seem bad on paper but become a nightmare when trying to do something
3) An obsession with breaking changes to the standard library vs actually building a standard library big enough to compete with C/C++
No specifics, because over the years all of his rants have kinda blurred together in my mind.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thanks for the comment. The whole idea of trying a new language is mostly a reaction to having to use PowerShell at work, which is the only language I have used that I actively hate and actually believe is destroying my brain cells.
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How do we sell our bosses on our ideas ?
In this case, I want him to buy me a subscription to Hoover's.
Cost is, about, $2600.00 for one year if I remember properly.
For the moment, we're going to try a LinkedIN premium account (definitely not my 1st choice in this case) on a month to month basis.
Really, Hoover's lays the golden eggs here.
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Tell him it's a Dyson.
Cost is about right... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What is Hoover's? Link please
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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What is Hoover's?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Google[^]
Top link.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I didn't Google it because I thought 'vacuums' and that didn't seem like what he was talking about
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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C-P-User-3 wrote: How do we sell our bosses on our ideas ?
Quite simply allow him/her to believe that it was they who thought of the idea then tell them that they are a genius.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Alcohol?
Blackmail?
Get creative! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You want to get, you have to give.
If you can explain why getting the subscription will make or save the company money...
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Basically for a sale to work you have to convince him the subscription is more valuable than the cost. We as people always judge on a value system like that. Up-play the subscription and downplay the $2.6k!
Jeremy Falcon
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That's a fair chunk to downplay!
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Thank you for sharing that insight
Simple truths are easily recognized when you see them, but it was nowhere to be found when I was looking for an answer to a similar question.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Anytime, as you already pointed out, that concept can be used in many areas. Mind food!
Jeremy Falcon
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Tell then how much better data will save them. Time spent updating and manipulating crap data costs money after all and Hoovers is about as good as I've ever gotten.
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C-P-User-3 wrote: How do we sell our bosses
I have no problems with selling my bosses. The only downside of my method is they have to hire a new one every time.
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Does a Mexican train killer have locomotives?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nah, just an to urge Tequila.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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