No. I did some serious work on jQuery, but that's a library rather than a language; and in the process also revised JavaScript.
Ask HN: Did you learn a language this year?
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Re: Ask HN: Did you learn a language this year?
#12I learned Javascript, Coffeescript and did some cool stuff with that, and have studied German and Japanese a bit.
But I have studied language itself more than a specific language.
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#13Not really.. I was comfortable with javascript/php :)
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#14I'm in the process of learning Python. I don't know the internals as deeply as I'd like, but I've used it superficially pretty effectively. It has pretty much replaced Perl for me, but there's still some things about it that annoy me. However it's easy to use, and I'm happy I started the ball rolling on it.
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#15I am relearning PHP for a job, and additionally have fiddled around some with haXe.
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#16C++ and (unrelated project) starting to play with ruby and rails...
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#17I started learning C.
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#18Nothing really much for me.. Improved my Javascript by writing Chrome Extensions, but I do want to learn Node.js and MongoDB.
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#19I learned Prolog and logic and constraint programming in general. Not only did I learn the Prolog language and some of it's dialects for constraint programming and fuzzy logic as a part of a logic programming course, I also wrote an interpreter for a Prolog-like programming language in Haskell as a part of an AI course.
Prolog and Logic programming in general are really worth learning. They will definitely widen your horizons when it comes to programming. Implementing a logic programming system will also teach some basic pattern matching and unification algorithms and applying them.
Re: Ask HN: Did you learn a language this year?
#20I played with Haskell, to the point of being able to read and understand larger chunks of Haskell code - but I haven't written anything of note in it yet. Not sure I ever will, either. I started playing with it due to git-annex (which was written in Haskell, and that triggered the interest) and the LYAH book (which is beyond awesome, by the way). Coming from an OO/imperative background, functional programming seemed interesting, and even though I didn't end up using Haskell, the tricks and ideas I borrowed did have a huge impact on me.
The other language I played a lot with, and ended up using a lot this year is Clojure. The main reason I started learning it is because its not only a LISP, it's a mostly functional, yet, practical language, whose concurrency and paralellism support is unparalelled. Being a JVM language, with great interoperability with Java also means that I can use existing Java libraries. All in all, it had great properties, and a syntax I was already somewhat familiar with (being an Emacs user for the past 12 years or so did expose me to at least some lisp, after all!), so my next few projects, which will likely see the light of day in early 2012, will be written in Clojure.
I also learned a bit about sparc assembly, because I had to, and as much as I didn't want to, I learned to read PHP a little bit better than I used to. I'm not exactly proud of that, but nevertheless, that's what happened.