Programming Languages for the New Year

As the New Year approaches a software developer's idea of renewal is typically learning a new programming language.  I ran across the following post which provides some interesting alternatives to consider.

10 programming languages worth checking out:

Also, Dr. Dobb's has an article on functional programming languages: It's Time to Get Good at Functional Programming

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2 Responses to “Programming Languages for the New Year”

  1. Tim Gee says:
    March 10, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    I’ve got client developing server apps using ERLANG. Their core capability is messaging so the built in resources of ERLANG fit the bill nicely.

  2. Dan Farina says:
    April 11, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Consider Python. You can ‘get things done’ (thanks to great documentation and libraries) and write in a functional style if you feel so inclined (I wouldn’t call it a functional language, but it’s not incomparable to Squeak or Clojure on your list, both which allow easy state modification).

    I do this all the time in Python, generally eschewing stateful objects for what would be more accurately described as composite values.

    I see that you don’t have it on your list of categories already, so that’d be a good place to go, even if it is more ‘mainstream.’

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