i am making a real time strategy game and need help to find what language would be best for these features
-economy
-build/destroy
-buildings
-defend your city from invaders
-traits of people or professions (knight, worker, archer, kind and so on)
-kind of like stronghold crusader

That's a really difficult question to answer. Many languages are suited to this type of project.

Taking a step back, how much experience do you have programming in any language? What language(s) do you know, and how long have you been using them?

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im not very experienced but i have writen in javascript before for a program called unity but any which would work with the project would be fine

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Well, you could do this with JavaScript (especially now that the HTML5 Canvas element is now supported in the slow-as-a-slug dinosaur of a browser we know as Internet Explorer).

What are your goals for your project? Do you want to sell it? Do you want to run it in a Web browser, or as a standalone app?

If you want to sell it, then C or C++ would be your best bets. They create standalone apps, and can be ported (relatively) easily to many different platforms.

If you want to run it in a Web browser, use JavaScript, Java, or ActionScript.

Really, just about any language can handle the task -- it's more about personal preferences. There is no "best" language for creating an RTS game.

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What most people don't understand about "enlightenment" is that it is not an end-goal; but where you find yourself just before taking a new "first step."

could you recommend a good and easy compiler to use i tried dev c++ but it didn't work when i tried to compile a script

When you say you used Dev-C++ to compile a script, do you mean you tried to compile a JavaScript script? That wouldn't work (Dev-C++ compiles C and C++ code... and JavaScript isn't a compiled language).

There are really only two flavors of compiler these days -- the GNU flavor and the Microsoft flavor (there are a couple others, but mostly these two are the ones to use). That said, there is no compiler more "easy" to use than another... they just take the same C or C++ code and turn it into binary. So, if you got errors compiling C or C++, it's the code you put in that has errors, it's not the compiler's fault.

You can download Visual Studio Express for free from Microsoft (it's a really large download, so be warned). It will work with C++, C#, VB.Net, and a few other languages if memory serves. There are other non-Microsoft compiler + IDE suites available on the Web such as NetBeans, CodeBlocks, and so on.

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no i tried to compile a c++ and would notepad++ work for creating a java game

I could use a text editor for Java, but you'd be better using something like Eclipse or NetBeans. They're free and will help you out more than a text editor.

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Also, Notepad++ won't compile Java code. You'll need to have the Java Development Kit, and use its compiler after saving the code file in Notepad++. If you want to code Java, NetBeans would probably be the nicest editor you can find for that (and it's free, of course).

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What most people don't understand about "enlightenment" is that it is not an end-goal; but where you find yourself just before taking a new "first step."

Ah yes. I should have probably made that clear.

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10 PRINT "Bad Monkey ";
20 GOTO 10