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Re:The Programming Language Conundrum by noir_lord on Saturday March 30, 2019 @05:59PM (#19532155)
Where would you rank a language like Kotlin in the JVM community or F# in the .Net?.

Both allow the massive freedom of something like a Lisp but you get to leverage the massive existing codebases in both environments.

Reason I ask is because I'm just starting to learn Kotlin (or will when the book turns up from Amazon) and I'm curious.

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Re:The Programming Language Conundrum by RhodesianHunter on Saturday March 30, 2019 @08:48PM (#19532944)
Are you comfortable in Java? If so you won't need any book just the documentation and stack overflow will give you all you need.
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Re:The Programming Language Conundrum by noir_lord on Sunday March 31, 2019 @05:11AM (#19534599)
Reasonably comfortable in Java though not used it much for the last few years, much more comfortable in C#.

I decided to go the book route because I've found that when learning a new language the book route works better for me since it gives a structured walkthrough of the language rather than a piecemeal one and it's more time efficient.

YMMV but for me you still can't beat a good programming language book.

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Re:The Programming Language Conundrum by RhodesianHunter on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @12:21AM (#19560703)
Gotcha. Books never worked for me for some reason, only by diving right in to building something can I learn.

Best of luck to you! I've never been more productive than I am with Kotlin.

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