Top 10 MUST KNOW programming languages if you want to be a programmer!
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Anonymous2005-10-08 11:32
Fuck fortran and lisp. That's not to say that they're bad languages (they may very well fall into the top 10, but the top 10 certainly aren't all "MUST know"). But professional programmers don't need any kind of background in fortran (unless you're working on whacked legacy code) or lisp, regardless of its theoretical value. I can't figure out why the hell so many people put that as number one on their lists. If you're a Software Development Engineer developing applications, you'll need to know C/C++ (though people don't really write new shit in pure C any more, so you don't really need to know it as a language separate from C++), maybe Java, and a shell script. Python and Perl could be handy. For Web Programmers, it's all about Perl, Java, JavaScript, PHP (unfortunately), maybe ASP and - if you're feeling tacky - Flash lingo.
But it is possible be a good programmer - a good professional programmer, even - knowing only one programming language.