From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 11:02:34 -0500 Subject: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn? In-Reply-To: <20191224163551.GA3839@mcvoy.com> References: <129b28e1-5629-2742-bb04-dfe6161ea3f0@telegraphics.com.au> <20191224163551.GA3839@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On 24/12/2019, Larry McVoy 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.