From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn?
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 11:02:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzx7ohw67SqvmjOxTbs4wu4n2nzhYJ-W9TjtFH0xsQRitQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191224163551.GA3839@mcvoy.com>
On 24/12/2019, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:28:12AM -0500, Toby Thain wrote:
>> 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.
>
> As a systems guy who likes to get all the perf he can out of the machine,
> those are not what I'd reach for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. I still like C, it's
> what I reach for first. Go might be second.
As usual, Larry, YMMV. Erlang/OTP is heavily used in telecoms back-end.
N.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-23 23:27 cym224
2019-12-24 9:54 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-24 16:28 ` toby
2019-12-24 16:35 ` lm
2019-12-24 17:50 `
2019-12-24 18:04 ` lm
2019-12-25 3:34 ` dave
2019-12-25 16:02 ` cym224 [this message]
2019-12-25 17:05 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-24 20:27 ` dave
2019-12-25 17:31 ` rtomek
2019-12-25 19:13 ` athornton
2019-12-26 0:23 ` me
2019-12-26 1:54 ` wobblygong
2019-12-26 3:44 ` dave
2019-12-26 4:00 ` lm
2019-12-26 5:43 ` wobblygong
2019-12-26 11:49 ` tih
2019-12-26 15:33 ` lm
2019-12-26 16:34 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-26 16:53 ` lm
2019-12-27 3:00 ` dave
2019-12-27 7:02 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-26 17:57 ` bakul
2019-12-26 21:28 ` davida
2019-12-26 21:37 ` lm
2019-12-26 21:57 ` sauer
2019-12-26 22:13 `
2019-12-27 3:41 ` bakul
2019-12-27 4:00 ` lm
2019-12-27 4:28 ` bakul
2019-12-26 22:16 ` imp
2019-12-27 3:41 ` bakul
2019-12-26 15:43 ` dfawcus+lists-coff
2019-12-27 17:46 ` cym224
2019-12-27 21:33 ` tih
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