Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'languages,': 0.03; 'skip': 0.04; 'scripting': 0.05; 'sure.': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'rest,': 0.07; 'stuff,': 0.07; 'used.': 0.07; "(it's": 0.09; 'adept': 0.09; 'subject:was': 0.15; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'mean,': 0.16; 'screening': 0.16; "somebody's": 0.16; 'subject:somewhat': 0.16; 'time...': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'instance': 0.18; 'perl': 0.18; 'written': 0.19; "haven't": 0.20; "aren't": 0.21; 'received:209.85.210.174': 0.21; 'received:mail- iy0-f174.google.com': 0.21; 'input': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'english,': 0.23; 'ones.': 0.23; 'pieces': 0.23; 'steve': 0.24; 'originally': 0.24; 'mainly': 0.28; 'bit': 0.28; "i'm": 0.28; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.29; 'pm,': 0.29; 'description,': 0.30; 'ran': 0.30; 'syntax,': 0.30; 'least': 0.30; 'kids': 0.31; 'actually': 0.31; 'file.': 0.31; 'go.': 0.32; "i've": 0.32; 'familiar': 0.32; 'list': 0.32; 'languages': 0.32; 'there': 0.33; 'fri,': 0.34; 'done': 0.34; 'platform,': 0.34; 'subject:Number': 0.34; 'probably': 0.35; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.35; 'two': 0.36; 'allocated': 0.37; 'awesome': 0.37; 'but': 0.37; 'received:google.com': 0.37; 'received:209.85': 0.38; 'hang': 0.38; 'used,': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'several': 0.38; 'think': 0.38; "i'd": 0.39; '(with': 0.39; 'received:209': 0.39; 'missing': 0.40; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'easy': 0.60; 'minutes': 0.64; 'music': 0.64; 'show': 0.66; 'family,': 0.67; 'care': 0.71; 'beautiful': 0.71; 'movie': 0.71; 'readers': 0.71; 'hate': 0.73; 'learned': 0.73; 'with,': 0.73; '2015': 0.84; 'cobol': 0.84; 'heh.': 0.84; 'howell': 0.84; 'tex': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rGAcXNIVNX5lOThOjlEHWMxO6VM4KFHGqQEB19rLGWc=; b=wgXGRCbR9CMKWet2PKskHB1HO6lZoPso8jPc8SlXwDkDnRjrHMR+PdAiqpI2A6wP78 BFGcD+HBhORmvyWW/IL2q1mR+dwTmjYm/2SxJ+LdhdZj6mWnAqQLmkCVFSqRATHGhZPy 23vqMTnYMSopyjGGB4ASbkpq3J5tkSg9iCUexcix1LWZ5x4fVXd11ICRlEHlDWpaynh5 Y6o6d/GrHGYxe9+iMibh5BllsNS/FHtZ9nyRpEAzFI0WDb9jYjD4NnzphI7WKEC4AG4o V6R1sdWuccGWcLMLyCAvOcfX3HjdRfrcVdkRum5gkJFnmHjc5d1N8B83QiARMZl9YseC +K3A== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8694a85d-fe94-4bef-8bb6-8a8241d14ca3@px4g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> References: <4f6bcdd5$0$29981$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <8694a85d-fe94-4bef-8bb6-8a8241d14ca3@px4g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:24:13 +1100 Subject: Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 47 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1332491055 news.xs4all.nl 6976 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:37460 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:22066 On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Steve Howell wrote: > If you're that adept at learning languages, then I recommend learning > Ruby just for kicks, but you're not missing *that* much, trust me. > I'd skip past Ruby and learn CoffeeScript. Sure. When I have some spare time... lessee, I think I have two spare minutes in the year 2015 that aren't allocated yet! Oops. There they go. > Of the languages that are in the scripting family, you already know > REXX (supreme elegance for its time), Perl (I hate it now, but loved > it before Python), PHP (truly easy to learn, you can never take that > away from it), and Javascript (horrible syntax, awful platform, but at > least they have first-class functions). > > You have the Assembly/C/C++/Java progression--definitely good stuff, > even if the ending to the movie was a bit of a letdown. +1 on the description, heh. > COBOL/Fortran/Ada gives you instance "old school" street cred. > > Haskell/Erlang/Scheme means you can hang out with the cool grad school > kids in the CS/Math departments (no oxymoron intended). Ehh, the ones from COBOL on were because I ran out of languages that I'm really familiar with, and enumerated a few famous ones. But the rest, I do actually know, and that's why I thought of them. > I confess--I've never learned LilyPond, Modula-2, or LPC! =A0I mean, of > course they're on my resume, just to get by HR screening, but that's > just between you and me... GNU LilyPond is a music publishing language (it's to music what TeX is to English, kinda). Awesome language and system. I can show you a few pieces I've done with Ly, it's beautiful music score from a very clean input file. Modula-2 is a Pascal-derived language that I haven't actually used, but it's cited as an influence in the development of several others that I have used. LPC is Lars Somebody's C, originally written as the basis for Lars Somebody's MUD or LPMUD, and was the basis for Pike (with which I'm very familiar, as readers of this list probably know). Half the above languages aren't on my resume, mainly because I don't really care about HR screening :) ChrisA