My next language

[shakyj]

Work is dead, Im bored. And like all good geeks I like learning new coding languages.

So my question is, what next?

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[Death]

IMO Perl then Ruby. I've come to enjoy perl's syntax as there are a lot of nice shortcuts and ease of use using different formats and functions. Also very useful with regex.

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[shakyj]

Two quotes come to mind when you say pearl.

When I worked at the Library of Congress, one of the bearded Unix Gurus crawled out of his cave long enough to scrawl this on the wall with a piece of charcoal:

"Perl is a write-only language... because there's no way you'll be able to read it later."

If you've uttered "I'll just write some Regex..." more than 23 times in one day, you might be a Perl developer.

Other than that I dont know anything. I shall "aquire" some ebooks on perl to futher my knowledge

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[Red Squirrel]

C++ if you don't know it, otherwise perl is a good route. As much as it's widly used in the enterprise, I tend to want to stay away from .net, as it's Microsoft's tactic to crush competing operating systems, by forcing users and programmers the proprietary windows platform. I rather learn how to do something the "standard" way (ex: C++ app that can do the same a .net app can do) that way the same program will work without any dependencies AND be faster.

Java is not a bad idea either. If I was to learn a new language I'd probably pick that right now.

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[dprantl]

If you don't know java, you should try it. Performance is of course less than pure C++, but not as bad as people think, especially in 1.6.x.

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