ive gotten to the point where i just want to learn 50 million languages.
i know some perl and some ruby, general usage bash shit and a bit of c.
i want to learn common lisp and scheme, smalltalk, some more c and cpp, maybe try out erlang and prolog. ive got lua books and stupid shit piled up on my desktop.
what do i narrow it down to? ive decided i don't care about web shit, so php and js are out. no python, not bothering with haskell
Thinking in C++ isn't bad if you really need to go down that road. There's also a quite good book on templates which name I forgot. It's something like "definitive guide to C++ templates" or something like that.
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Anonymous2012-03-03 15:22
If you're not into web leave ruby, it's crap.
focus on C, be really good at it, really learn what it does, create some cool stuff with C, it's you're basis, later learn scheme or C++, whatever, they all the same.
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Anonymous2012-03-03 15:36
learn a functional language:
Haskell
Clojure
F#
These are "real" functional language, not pretend like Scheme.
Read SICP. It may take a month or more to master, but it will teach you to think about paradigms in such a way that you'll be able to master new languages in a weekend.
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Pragmatism is more important than meaningless purity. Purity of Haskell didn't deliver any of the promised benefits.
It's still slow, ugly and you need to hack it beyond all sanity to make something useful.
I found Smalltalk to be a worthwhile language to learn. Even though its use is limited nowadays unless you feel like writing your own compiler/interpreter for it, learning it requires a very different perspective compared to functional / procedural languages.