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Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by larryfreeman » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 5:22 PM UTC

php

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by goodmike » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 5:24 PM UTC

self (Mwah hah hah hah hah!)

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by prakash » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 5:25 PM UTC

eznet wrote: post #20

thomasmallen wrote: post #15

Um...why are Ruby and Python combined?! Creates separate choices

I thought the same thing here - unique languages with distinctive paradigms, deserving of separate choices.

My thought process was, if Python and/or Ruby is on the to learn list, they would look at both, but go with one of them.

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by Triis » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 5:25 PM UTC

Is Ruby/Python similar to C/C++?

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by prakash » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 5:27 PM UTC

DaniFong wrote: post #19

It's sort of a combination of the two; Lisp Flavored Erlang, for real time control.

which language are you talking about?

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by prakash » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 5:28 PM UTC

Hates_ wrote: post #5

Objective C

I missed that one, seems to be really popular now thanks to the iphone.

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by pavelludiq » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 5:28 PM UTC

i voter for ruby/python, but i already know python well, so its ruby.

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by mark_ellul » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 5:28 PM UTC

thomasmallen wrote: post #15

Um...why are Ruby and Python combined?! Creates separate choices

I agree

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by compay » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 5:29 PM UTC

Lua

An elegant, minimalistic and fast scripting language. It's like Javascript without all the cruft.

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by prakash » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 5:29 PM UTC

dougfort wrote: post #11

F# (and not OCaml)

Ocaml is another popular language that I missed. Sorry.