I thought about doing a poll, but I think it'd be more interesting to see what people learned and why (or perhaps not learned and why). This year I can't say I've "learned" a language although I have dabbled in Erlang, Clojure, and Haskell.
Ask HN: Did you learn a language this year?
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#2I learnt Ruby this year, because I read Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby and it made me really excited about it's simplicity and readability. I used it to build Hackerbuddy.com.
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#3I learnt python. It's awesome.
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#4I learned french ;)
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#5Wouldn't consider it a new language, but after all the back-and-forth articles on HN about CoffeeScript, this year I really spent some time learning the fundamentals of it.
Mostly though, I just drastically extended my capability with the languages I already know.
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#6I've learned JS, after being very reluctant to it for a long while, and I gladly found out it's actually a very interesting and missunderstood language!
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#7I started with OOP and C++
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#8C++, matlab and (erk!) actionscript 3
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#9haskell! cannot say i master it, but i build a little something (https://github.com/cies/thehall), and certainly experienced the beauty of it. it was quite a painful experience coming from the OO continent, but then: no pain, no gain -- right?
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#10Yes, Arc.