Ask HN: Did you learn a language this year?

Learned Ruby/Rails, dived deeper onto JS but still a n00b. Next year will be either Scala or Clojure.

I learned Clojure this year, but I don't think I have finished learning it. So my plan for next year is to study on it until I am comfortable enough with it (which would be: good enough to make some money from something built in Clojure) -right now I am having a look at Seesaw to builf GUI's in Clojure, I am quite impressed! Then I will go for some low-level C, and after that Haskell probably.

I hope I'll remember in December 2012 to ask myself "well, how far did I get in Clojure/C/Haskell?"

Dabbled in Lua, not had chance to play with many languages this year but managed to get my head around lot of new mobile frameworks and tooling

This year...I learned SAS Macro Programming to automate roughly twelve analyst jobs (including my own), a whole bunch of SQL (for the new job that replaced the automated one), some basic common lisp for fun (up to writing a Sudoku solver in ~150 LoC), and have just started on Clojure (because I love lisp, but want to be able to actually use it).

I don't know if I really learned a "new" language this year (i.e. one I had never touched before), but I did spend a lot of time on improving my understanding of some languages which were more important to me, and learning some new frameworks and libraries.

In particular, I spent a lot of time digging into OpenMP and MPI programming in Fortran and C, and getting a better understanding of SciPy and NumPy. (If you hadn't guessed, I work in HPC. :-) ) I also worked on a couple of webapps using Bottle (Python) and Dancer (Perl), which were new frameworks to me.