What would be a good language to implement a naive bayes classifier from scratch?

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I would like to implement a naive bayes classifier for spam filtering from scratch as a learning exercise. What would be the best langauge of the following to try this out in?

Java
Ruby
C++
C
something else

Please give reasons (it would help greatly!)

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