Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them

Post by plinkplonk » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 4:01 PM UTC

dxbydt wrote: post #105

Learn more ? I'm actively trying to unlearn a bunch of languages at this point! ofcourse, when I was a wageslave in the bay area, its nice to know python, java, javascript, scala etc. - got me jobs every 2-3 years & put food on table. now that i'm in academia, its completely upside down. literally everybody is way more productive than me in just about any task. The other day I as supposed to program a poisson clock,…

Post by vips7L » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 4:05 PM UTC

vnorilo wrote: post #80

Based on my personal experience, I'd say there are good "buckets" of language-context pairs and you can pick one from each according to taste. C/C++/Rust/Ada on bare metal or systems work for building abstraction upwards from the hardware. Clojure/Scheme/Common Lisp/Racket: A good dynamic language that's extremely composable, to build abstraction downward from human logic. ML/F#/Haskell: Powerful type systems that ca…

Post by ozim » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 4:05 PM UTC

ryanthedev wrote: post #111

ryanthedev wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work for an airline. I known about constraints. If I knew only one language, I never would be at the level I am. Here is the tech stack I deal with daily. VB6 Kix scripts Powershell .net 3.5 Winforms WPF .net 4+ .net core .net asp Java JavaScript React Angular C++ Golang. If programming is a job and not your craft, it will be harder for you. You just have to practice more.

I had to use a jar in a .net program. Do you know how much of a pain in the ass that was?

Post by nathanyo » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 4:12 PM UTC

rmrfrmrf wrote: post #115

dxbydt wrote: post #105

Learn more ? I'm actively trying to unlearn a bunch of languages at this point! ofcourse, when I was a wageslave in the bay area, its nice to know python, java, javascript, scala etc. - got me jobs every 2-3 years & put food on table. now that i'm in academia, its completely upside down. literally everybody is way more productive than me in just about any task. The other day I as supposed to program a poisson clock,…

I'm not familiar with the author, but I didn't take the article strictly from the perspective of the labor market. There are people who program as a hobby, for example. For those who are interested, it can be enlightening to see how different language designs lend themselves to different tasks.

Post by sus_007 » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 4:17 PM UTC

leshow wrote: post #92

I couldn't agree more, but if I could make a recommendation. If you already know a mainstream OO language, you won't get much benefit out of learning another in the same arena. Going from Java to C# you will learn less than going from javascript to ocaml or Java to Haskell. The best thing (for my own learning) I ever decided to do was learn Haskell. I have never been paid to write code in Haskell but it gave me such…