[COFF] What languges would you like to learn?

[Wesley Parish]

I'm thinking of finally learning C++. Go and Rust sound like a good 
challenge, except when you put the two names together and it sounds like 
a command (Like that famous royal couple, Chuck and Die. Not the name 
for a restaurant, let alone a fast food joint.). And some day I intend 
learning Lisp and Scheme, but I've never made the time for it yet.

I've learnt Pascal and C and SQL and Java and (believe it or not) CNC 
part programming, had some introduction to Lisp and Modula2 and Oberon. 
I've even looked at Ada. Depending on the usability of DOSemu and 
FreeDOS, I might have another go at getting my head around Intel's i86 
assembler, but I think the time might be better spent learn g/as.

Wesley Parish

On 26/12/19 1:23 pm, Ryan Merrill wrote:
> I’m surprised Racket hasn’t come up on this thread yet. It was the 
> first LISP I learned and was incredibly rewarding for my day job as a 
> developer. I only touched its surface, but would love the opportunity 
> to dive deeper into some of its abilities to create domain specific 
> languages for specialized tasks.
>
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 2:13 PM Adam Thornton <athornton at gmail.com 
> <mailto:athornton at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Maybe this will be the year I finally learn Rust. Like Larry if I
>     am feeling like using a compiled language, I reach for Go or C
>     (probably in that order these days), and my day job is mostly
>     Python, which once you get over the syntactic whitespace, really
>     is pretty much just executable pseudocode, which turns out to be
>     rather nice.
>
>     FORTH is fun and everyone should learn enough of it to get the
>     feel of a stack-based language.  You can have most of the fun with
>     a proper HP calculator (I never owned a better calculator than the
>     28S).  Not sure how relevant FORTH is anymore, but it makes a nice
>     palate-cleanser.  Of course if you turn the stack on its side you
>     have a list, and writing in LISP dialects is also fun.
>
>     This also may be the year I dust off and get good at IBM 370
>     assembler.  I've got a vanilla VM/370r6 and one with the SixPack
>     and DIAG58 and all the bells and whistles (including a screen
>     editor not a million miles from good old XEDIT) running under
>     Hercules.  So it seems like taking a crack at getting v7 for the
>     370 going is something I really should do.  And I talked to
>     someone--don't remember who without searching my email
>     archives--about bootstrapping from v7 to whatever the latest
>     Research Unix we can find is.  That'd be cool too.
>
>
>     Adam
>
>     On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 10:31 AM Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.pl
>     <mailto:rtomek at ceti.pl>> wrote:
>
>         On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 06:27:48PM -0500, 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...
>
>         I will swim upstream and say: if I had more free time, I would
>         probably want to finish reading "The AWK Programming Language"
>         by Aho,
>         Kernighan snd Weinberger. The language is quite limited (as I have
>         written in another email of mine) but I think it is grossly
>         underappreciated and quite a few things can be squeezed out
>         from it.
>
>         After that, I could find myself some decent Forth introduction and
>         finish reading that one, too.
>
>         But if you have not had experience with Scheme yet, try it
>         out. LISPs
>         in general are worth learning, IMHO. And much more practical
>         than what
>         a popular opinion says.
>
>         -- 
>         Regards,
>         Tomasz Rola
>
>         --
>         ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. 
>             **
>         ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's
>         home    **
>         ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... 
>             **
>         **            **
>         ** Tomasz Rola          mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com
>         <mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com>          **
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