If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

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Post by egor83 » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 10:32 AM UTC

If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?
spreadsheets.google.com

Re: If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

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Post by egor83 » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 10:36 AM UTC

A follow-up to the discussion of the results of similar survey at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982903

We had a poll for that (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983229 ), but it diverged a bit into answering "which ELSE three programming languages would you learn" and natural languages discussion.

EDIT: If you choose "Other" from the list, could you please add a comment here saying which language would it be?

EDIT2: live results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgDNp1TM4umedC0zRkR...

I'll sum it up and post the results later.

Re: If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

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Post by russellallen » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 10:50 AM UTC

egor83 wrote: post #2

A follow-up to the discussion of the results of similar survey at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982903 We had a poll for that ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983229 ), but it diverged a bit into answering "which ELSE three programming languages would you learn" and natural languages discussion. EDIT: If you choose "Other" from the list, could you please add a comment here saying which language would it…

My other would be Self :)

Re: If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

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Post by jamii » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 10:52 AM UTC

I'm starting to get annoyed with the way google translates pages based on my ip and then offers to translate them back based on my browser settings. This is sub-optimal.

Re: If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

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Post by jaekwon » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 10:55 AM UTC

as always, javascript being neglected. poor old ubiquitous javascript.

Re: If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

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Post by jules » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 10:57 AM UTC

No x86 assembly? No F#?

Re: If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

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Post by egor83 » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 10:58 AM UTC

jaekwon wrote: post #5

as always, javascript being neglected. poor old ubiquitous javascript.

Thanks, good point - I guess I should've started with 'Other'.

As for arc-arc-arc answers - one out of 62 so far.

EDIT: I answered to the previous version of the parent.

Re: If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

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Post by russellallen » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 10:59 AM UTC

egor83 wrote: post #7

jaekwon wrote: post #5

as always, javascript being neglected. poor old ubiquitous javascript.

Thanks, good point - I guess I should've started with 'Other'. As for arc-arc-arc answers - one out of 62 so far. EDIT: I answered to the previous version of the parent.

Well at least you know pg's voted.

Re: If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

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Post by egor83 » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 11:01 AM UTC

jaekwon wrote: post #5

as always, javascript being neglected. poor old ubiquitous javascript.

> javascript being neglected

How come? As far as I can see, JS would be one of the top answers.

Re: If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

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Post by derefr » Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 11:02 AM UTC

Are programming languages really discrete, though? If you learn Scheme, then write Arc in it, do you now know Arc, or do you still just know Scheme? If you Greenspun in C, do you still only know C, or did you "learn" (half of) Common Lisp?