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Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT

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Date 2012-03-23 18:05 +1100
Subject Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mar 22, 6:11 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
> +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> In any case, I'm not talking about the best developers. I'm talking about
>> the typical developer, who by definition is just average. They probably
>> know reasonably well one to three of the half dozen most popular
>> languages (VB, Java, C, C+, Javascript, PHP, Perl?) plus regexes and SQL,
>> and are unlikely to know any of Prolog, Lisp, Haskell, Hypertalk,
>> Mercury, Cobra, Smalltalk, Ada, APL, Emerald, Inform, Forth, ...
>
> I love how you can rattle off 20 or so languages, just off the top of
> your head, and not even mention Ruby. ;)

If I were to rattle off a couple dozen languages, it probably wouldn't
include Ruby either. Never learned it, don't (as yet) know what its
advantage domain is. My list "runs somewhat thus": BASIC, 80x86
Assembly, C, C++, Java, REXX, Pascal, Pike, Perl, PHP, Javascript,
DeScribe Macro Language, Scheme, Python, ActionScript, DOS Batch, Lua,
COBOL, FORTRAN, Ada, Modula-2, LPC, Erlang, Haskell... and that's not
counting things like POV-Ray or LilyPond that aren't exactly
_programming_ languages, although in some cases you could shoehorn an
application into them. Granted, I do have some rather strange and
esoteric interests, and I'm sure that Ruby is far better known than
DeScribe Macro Language (!!), but I think first of those I've used,
and then of the most famous.

Sorry Ruby. No slight meant! :)

ChrisA

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Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 06:14 +1100
  Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-23 01:11 +0000
    Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-22 19:48 -0700
      Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-03-23 00:51 -0400
      Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 18:05 +1100
        Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-23 01:04 -0700
          Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 19:24 +1100
          Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Nathan Rice <nathan.alexander.rice@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 10:27 -0400
          RE: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-03-23 15:15 +0000
          RE: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-03-23 15:16 +0000
          Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-03-23 09:23 -0700
          Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-03-23 19:28 +0100
          Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-03-23 17:11 -0400
          Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-03-24 00:44 -0400
    Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-23 00:45 -0700
  Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-22 20:11 -0700

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