Comments on: Programming Language Study Group

By: Sabbatical Plan-- Greg and Kat’s blog

Sabbatical Plan-- Greg and Kat’s blog — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:53:56 +0000

[...] To get to the “more about programming languages” stuff (and because it will be interesting), I intend to learn a programming language a month. [...]

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:10:08 +0000

I’d consider Smalltalk, the Source of OO. Or whatever.

My language to-do is Lisp, Python, C (including Cuda), Haskell, Smalltalk, ECMAScript. Not necessarily in that order.

Lua’s just Python, more or less. D sounds boring. Screw C#… it’s probably got some good stuff, because it’s Java-with-less-history (i.e. less cruft), but so what? Everything else on your list is paradigmatic!

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:06:31 +0000

I’m going to add Pike to the list as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_(programming_language)

By: Curtis Lassam » Blog Archive » Project Project-A-Week (Project)

Curtis Lassam » Blog Archive » Project Project-A-Week (Project) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:49:23 +0000

[...] opportunity to have a big block of free time. Nobody in the industry has the opportunity to just take 6 months off and do something interesting, do they? That’s [...]

By: Allen Pike

Allen Pike — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:16:09 +0000

As a side note, sometimes your math question spam filter triggers even when you do the math right (I know, I checked the contents of my POST with FireBug!)

By: Allen Pike

Allen Pike — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:14:36 +0000

Yay languages! Right now I’m working on getting deep enough into Python that I’m naturally writing idiomatic Python rather than C-in-Python.

All of these languages should be worth learning, but let me know what you think of Erlang. Not having string handling would make it too hard for me to spend much time with. I’m string-obsessed.

What I’m *really* interested in is D. I like writing the kind of apps that are usually done in C++, but I don’t like writing C++.