Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

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Post by anigbrowl » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 9:16 PM UTC

After Effects Expressions, a js-like scripting language for video graphics. I'm not sure if this qualifies though...

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

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Post by coconutrandom » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 9:17 PM UTC

Arc (lisp in general)

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

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Post by DanielBMarkham » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 9:18 PM UTC

F# -- OCAML has got it all: imperative, functional. Plus with F# you've got a huge collection of ready-to-use libraries

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

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Post by cema » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 9:24 PM UTC

Clojure.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

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Post by gaius » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 9:24 PM UTC

Zak wrote: post #19

Haskell. I've already written non-trivial applications in it, but there's still so much to understand.

Haskell for me too. It's slow going, but it's already making me a better Python programmer in my real work. OCaml/F# are on the back burner too.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

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Post by MTayor » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 9:27 PM UTC

Bouncing around between PHP, AS3 and Python/Django. Really need to settle on one for a bit.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

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Post by aristus » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 9:37 PM UTC

Javascript. I've "known" it for 10+ years, but now I think is the time to take it seriously. The web stack is getting dumber as a lot of UI and logic moves to JS inside the browser.

Databases got dumber in exactly the same way -- do you know or care if your database has good stored procedure support? Eventually it won't matter much what the server is running.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

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Post by Darmani » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 9:38 PM UTC

I'm rewriting a card-game-playing environment written in Java. I originally wanted to use one of the Java implementations of Arc, but the low activity level of the forum (and my difficulty installing Rainbow a while back) makes me uneasy, so I'm learning Clojure. Sorry PG.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

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Post by whughes » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 9:43 PM UTC

locopati wrote: post #4

Erlang - why? after diving into threading in Java for a recent project, I wanted to see other ways of approaching the same problem - recommendations for other languages with powerful threading solutions?

Stackless Python is neat, but it's not really threading.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language are you currently learning?

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Post by Scriptor » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 9:45 PM UTC

sidjoshi wrote: post #15

PHP

Rather surprising to see PHP so high here since I rarely see PHP-related submissions on HN. How do people learn it? I've found that the best thing for me was finding StumbleUpon and reading up as much as I could about best practices in PHP and programming in general. Now I force myself to try a different language for my own projects to get away from PHP as a "comfort zone".