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Which new language should I learn? [SOLVED]

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-19 20:03

Haskell and Python have gotten boring. Ruby is basically python with some added crap and SLOW-er AS FUCK. Factor is too stack based. Javascript (including derivatives), Racket and Common Lisp is too crap and Chez Scheme is too proprietary. Clojure is too JVM, {{C,F}#,Scala,Boo,Nemerle,Cobra,etc.} is too Microsoft, Oz is horribly ugly, Prolog is too logic oriented.

I usually use Haskell and Python. Python is inherently boring, and I've lately done a crapton of repetitive Haskell programming which has temporarily ruined it for me. I recently wrote a few lines of PHP, and even though it sucked hard due to all PHPs faults, it was kind of fun. I miss the tricks with magical methods to hack in multiple inheritance, custom functionality in mixins depending on special syntax in comments read through reflection, and … wait.

Oh, god, I just figured it out: Perl 6.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-19 21:32

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Yeah, and as there are no way to tell when an expression ends it seems to me that you'd easily pass the function on the next line and get very weird error messages. That may be why higher order functions are not used much.

But thanks for the examples. It's an interesting language, at least.

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