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Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

#91

Post by Ashishlin » Mon, Jul 06, 2009, 3:31 AM UTC

Ruby at the moment

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

#92

Post by bantic » Mon, Jul 06, 2009, 2:12 PM UTC

erlang. because somehow my install of ejabberd failed and I don't know the first thing about how to troubleshoot it. plus I want to learn more about languages that are good with parallelization.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

#93

Post by cema » Mon, Jul 06, 2009, 4:43 PM UTC

charrington wrote: post #31

cema wrote: post #24

Clojure.

I am learning Clojure because I know lots of "traditional" languages and want to stretch my brain in new ways. I am also interested in new ways to write parallel programs, which is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. Clojure scores well on these two criteria. I chose Clojure over Scala and Haskell, because I believe in dynamic typing over static typing. This is probably more an issue of tase than anything and I also…

Agree on all points.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

#94

Post by OtherMichael » Mon, Jul 06, 2009, 8:34 PM UTC

aristus wrote: post #27

Javascript. I've "known" it for 10+ years, but now I think is the time to take it seriously. The web stack is getting dumber as a lot of UI and logic moves to JS inside the browser. Databases got dumber in exactly the same way -- do you know or care if your database has good stored procedure support? Eventually it won't matter much what the server is running.

I'm fresh to JavaScript this year, but am keeping at it, and adding JQuery to the mix, this summer.