Mozart (http://www.mozart-oz.org/) by reading "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" (http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html)
Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?
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#42All of the above to various degrees? I'd want to at least get a vague feel for what each of them is good for, how it interacts with the system, and the general thought processes that accompany it for each one of them, so that I could say that "I could write something in it with some research".
It's more about expanding my mind than about picking up a tool, with a number of exceptions for my workhorse languages (which are constantly changing)
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#43factor, Ocaml/ jocaml, groovy,
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#44Qi
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#45Lua An elegant, minimalistic and fast scripting language. It's like Javascript without all the cruft.
i second that. Lua is very much fun to work with. It has actually full closures, upvars, and functions are first class citizen.
The only thing is lacking a little bit of OO design. It is duable, but OO on lua always feels a little bit hacky.
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#46Ouch, zero points for Arc. Even MPI has one (prospective) devotee!
I voted Haskell, because their libraries are finally getting the language to a point where it is competitive. There's even a story about this on the front page today!
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless of course you already know Python and want to learn Ruby next (or the other way around).
True that; but wouldn't you be better off learning a language that is a lot more different?
It depends on the purpose of learning said language. Are you learning to broaden your horizons to explore new paradigms and such? Or are you learning a language because you're part (or planning to be part) of X group who happens to be developing in Y and you just need to be productive/marketable?
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#48Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?
#49I have no plans to learn new languages for the time being. I've been exposed to most of the big concepts, so I feel a creeping sense of diminishing returns as I have to invest time in increasingly different syntaxes to learn anything really different.
That is time I could spend building out more productive libraries and architecture for my real goals.
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#50I'm currently learning Flex, which I guess means I'm learning ActionScript? I have to say I'm not enjoying it as much as I enjoy Ruby.