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Re:Ask HN: 1 Programming Language to Add to my Skills? by equark on Monday November 01, 2010 @02:11PM (#1857488)
Choose the domain first and then the language. Decide what type of programming do you want to do and what type of company do you want to work for. Then choose the biggest or hottest language / framework in that domain.

Do you want to do science and R&D? Then maybe Matlab, R, OpenCL/Cuda? Finance? Maybe F#. Big Data and statistics? R, Hive, Scope, Pig, Cascading, DryadLinq, Clojure. Web front-end? Javascript. Web back-end? Javascript, Python or Ruby. Mobile? Objective-C or MonoTouch. Games? Lua. Etc, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: 1 Programming Language to Add to my Skills? by MisterWebz on Monday November 01, 2010 @03:00PM (#1857708)
Javascript as back-end? Is Node.js already at a point where it can be used for commercial websites?
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