[lumberjack]

There is no objective way to answer this. You are probably talking about rapid prototyping languages. The most popular ones in use today are Python and possibly Java (?). Dialects of Lisp have a strong tradition of being good rapid prototyping languages and there is potential in languages like Haskell. I'm obviously talking about general purpose languages here and therein lies the problem. Different languages have different resources, different communities and perform better at different tasks. It not possible to go in more detail. However this is not a question that you should be asking yourself because the answer will come naturally with time. Try to experience and learn as much and with time you'll have a preference for a language when you just want to hack something together. That's your answer.