On 2019-12-23 6:27 p.m., Nemo Nusquam wrote:
> A recent thread makes me wonder which languages would people like to
> learn?  (I confess to trying, as Dave does, but time prevents anything
> more that learing syntax and writing toy programmes.  One must write
> something substantial -- not synonomous with large -- to really learn a
> language.)
> 
> Erlang, Smalltalk, Prolog, Haskell, and Scheme come to mind...

You have GREAT taste, and that covers the major paradigms.

The late Joe Armstrong had a very similar list!

https://www.quora.com/What-programming-languages-should-all-programmers-know/answer/Toby-Thain

--T

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