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 DomesticMouse » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 11:58 PM UTC

Scala. Because it's the right combination of fun and pain. =)

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

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Post by mmphosis » Sat, Jul 04, 2009, 11:59 PM UTC

Scheme

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

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Post by paulgb » Sun, Jul 05, 2009, 12:06 AM UTC

gaius wrote: post #25

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.

> making me a better Python programmer in my real work.

I found this too. Once I started reasoning with lazyness, Python's generators felt a lot more natural. The itertools module is very useful.

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

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Post by noblethrasher » Sun, Jul 05, 2009, 12:25 AM UTC

Haxe - compiles to ActionScript, JavaScript, PHP et al. Strongly typed (with type inference) and creates faster code than Adobe's AS3 compiler.

F#

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

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Post by tptacek » Sun, Jul 05, 2009, 12:42 AM UTC

None. I've got enough of them. What I need to get better at is maths, signal processing, and graphics. Chiming in to reject the idea that we should spend our careers churning through languages.

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

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Post by jamongkad » Sun, Jul 05, 2009, 12:47 AM UTC

A few months ago Python, decided to jump the gun to learn Common Lisp and Scheme.

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

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Post by mannicken » Sun, Jul 05, 2009, 1:11 AM UTC

Ruby, Scheme, C++. C++ I am learning for about six years already, what a fucking complex language :)

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

#58

Post by tybris » Sun, Jul 05, 2009, 1:24 AM UTC

I haven't learned a new language for a while now. Perl/Java/C never fails me and I'd rather learn a new trick than another way of doing an old trick. I am learning about modern large-scale Internet service design, running hadoop clusters, distributed logging solutions, virtualization, ad-hoc radio networks, radio propagation, sensor fusion, intelligent transportation systems, etc. (for startup and PhD)

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

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Post by Locke1689 » Sun, Jul 05, 2009, 1:27 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #55

None. I've got enough of them. What I need to get better at is maths, signal processing, and graphics. Chiming in to reject the idea that we should spend our careers churning through languages.

Agreed, although I am still learning new things about Haskell (but that's because it's still under heavy development in certain areas).

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

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Post by vikas5678 » Sun, Jul 05, 2009, 1:32 AM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #36

I'm learning Scala for the following three reasons (in increasing order of importance.) These just reflect my current needs, not a prescription for other people, and all three revolve around my need to add a practical language to my repertoire to reduce my usage of C++ and Java. 3. I decided to learn a language I could use on the Java platform using Java APIs, rather than on the _nix C platform using C APIs. Partly t…

I'm learning Scala for the same reasons. I'm also working with my professor on building a scala web framework to do stuff for which Jave EE is usually used. Whatever little I know about Scala, I love.