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

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

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I was intrigued that my answers for 1,2 & 3 are the most popular. I answered 1:C for simplicity and an an appreciation for where we've come from. 2:Python because i've never felt as free to express as when using python. 3:Javascript because it's practical to learn it.

For others who answered C->Python->Javascript, what were your reasons?

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

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You've included many redundant languages while simultaneously excluding several classes of languages. Many of your other decisions seem odd. C/Pascal/Delphi are not so different from each other. C++/Java/C# are not so different from each other. PHP/Python/Ruby/Perl/Lua/JavaScript/Shell are not so different from each other. Arc/Scheme are not so different from each other. You've neglected the APL family of languages.…

I agree with some of your points, though I don't think making C/Pascal and Python/PHP groups would be a good decision. As for languages selection - I considered adding assembly, F#, ML, Fortran, Algol and some others, but I had to stop somewhere. I combined the options in DZone with GitHub top, and added a few other names. SQL was explicitly requested in the previous discussion, so I added it. Groovy scored above Lis…

As far as I checked, there was no stack based language. No Factor, no Forth, no PostScript. I missed that, that's what my "other" stands for.

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

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It's a bit unclear. Is it assuming I'm starting from knowing no programming languages, or is it asking which three programming languages I would learn in addition to the ones I already know?

And order of importance or order in which one would learn them?
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