[COFF] What languges would you like to learn?

[Nemo]

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.