On Languages: Perspectives on Programming Language Choice

http://marccull.com/2014/09/13/on-languages/

by superfamicom • 12 years ago

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dllthomas• 12 years ago

I commend the exercise! In terms of sampling points in programming-space, I often recommend Prolog, though I think that might not be well suited to your goals here (you're not likely to run into a managerial situation where someone is pushing it...). Two things that probably belongs on either kind of list would be Haskell and some sort of Lisp.

Corrado• 12 years ago

I think Lisp is a great language and every programmer should at least glance at it. It can really change the way your brain works (in a good way).

I would probably also add Rust to the list. Its slowly replacing Go in my mind for system level things. :/

bluesnowmonkey• 12 years ago

It's a little bit pedantic, but Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Arduino are not programming languages. Also, C/C++ is not one language but two. But I don't suppose that detracts from the value of the exercise.

On Languages: Perspectives on Programming Language Choice

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