From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo Nusquam) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 12:46:28 -0500 Subject: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn? In-Reply-To: <20191225173101.GA13390@tau1.ceti.pl> References: <20191225173101.GA13390@tau1.ceti.pl> Message-ID: <2edaa4e4-f842-93c6-8c8b-9f89349863d7@gmail.com> On 12/25/19 12:31, Tomasz Rola wrote (in part): > On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 06:27:48PM -0500, 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... > I will swim upstream and say: if I had more free time, I would > probably want to finish reading "The AWK Programming Language" by Aho, > Kernighan snd Weinberger. A former colleague wrote an assembler in AWK. We had a contract to supply s/w for a chip still being developed. The (binary -- no source) assembler supplied by the customer was not only buggy and slow, it core-dumped on reaching an unknown op-code and they changed op-codes on every iteration! [...] > But if you have not had experience with Scheme yet, try it out. LISPs > in general are worth learning, IMHO. And much more practical than what > a popular opinion says. > Indeed -- I have played with Racket on and off (especially as it builds on my Sparc box). N.