Comments on: What Languages Are All The Cool Kids Are Doing These Days? http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/30/what-languages-are-all-the-cool-kids-doing-these-days/ It's Not Just About Llamas Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:14:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mpdehaan http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/30/what-languages-are-all-the-cool-kids-doing-these-days/#comment-847 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:40:29 +0000 http://michaeldehaan.net/?p=1119#comment-847 Personally this is about me, not which is the best language, so I gain little by learning something so similar to Ruby and Python and Perl 5. Personally I feel Python has kicked
Perl’s buttocks thoroughly (esp in terms of ease of maintaince), so there’s not much reason to want to invest in Perl.

I mean, I had a very good time with Perl back in the day. It was fun. However, that was because I was at a Java/C++ development job and it was a fun diversion to learn the dark corners… and having seen Python and Ruby take off, I don’t really have a want to go back. I just don’t think it has the buzz, even if Perl 6 is all magically readable and simple, it seems to be too late in a field of a lot of other similar languages.

So, basically — (A) I don’t learn that much by learning it, and (B) I think it’s dead, Jim.

]]> By: Andy Lester http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/30/what-languages-are-all-the-cool-kids-doing-these-days/#comment-846 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:32:01 +0000 http://michaeldehaan.net/?p=1119#comment-846 How do you mean that “Haskell is guilty for being involved with Perl 6″?

What makes you say “Perl 6 is right out.”?

]]> By: bochecha http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/30/what-languages-are-all-the-cool-kids-doing-these-days/#comment-845 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:18:25 +0000 http://michaeldehaan.net/?p=1119#comment-845 Just for fun, you could try Shakespeare:
http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/shakespeare.html
:D

]]> By: mpdehaan http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/30/what-languages-are-all-the-cool-kids-doing-these-days/#comment-844 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:45:03 +0000 http://michaeldehaan.net/?p=1119#comment-844 The point of learning new languages for me is learning how to think differently, not the same way.

I already know Ruby, Jython is too close to Python (and also quite downlevel relative to Python in terms of what it supports)

]]> By: kad http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/30/what-languages-are-all-the-cool-kids-doing-these-days/#comment-843 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:07:35 +0000 http://michaeldehaan.net/?p=1119#comment-843 What about Jython? I know, is basically the same as python, however it can gain access to all the java std libraries, so doesn’t sound so bad. Windows.forms have been available for mono for a while now iirc, don’t know for sure since I don’t do mono. You can always try coming back to C, C is the new C! :) Just kidding, ruby seems to be gaining a lot of momentum lately and there are enough cool features to keep you hooked, so I’d say go fot it.

]]> By: Jon http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/30/what-languages-are-all-the-cool-kids-doing-these-days/#comment-842 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:58:54 +0000 http://michaeldehaan.net/?p=1119#comment-842 You could combine language interests and try something like Reia:
http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Reia_Programming_Language

It’s a ruby/python like language running on the Erlang VM.

]]> By: ldng http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/30/what-languages-are-all-the-cool-kids-doing-these-days/#comment-840 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:47:13 +0000 http://michaeldehaan.net/?p=1119#comment-840 http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/
http://www.iolanguage.com/
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/

http://www.php.net/ :-D

]]> By: tomekw http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/06/30/what-languages-are-all-the-cool-kids-doing-these-days/#comment-839 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:22:11 +0000 http://michaeldehaan.net/?p=1119#comment-839 Ada :)

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