Haskell, C++, AWK, Bash, Lisp ... Which one is faster?

I was wondering, which of these programming languages are faster at handling big data files of only **strings**: Haskell, C++(Boost), AWK, Bash, Lisp... So far I have found the paper [Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs. ...](http://cpsc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/tr1049.pdf) . However, this paper is a little out of date.