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Re:If you could only learn three programming languages, whic... by d0m on Thursday December 09, 2010 @07:52AM (#1987195)
Scheme/Python/Javascript (Mainly to be able to do a little bit of everything - and scheme to make you learn to think out of the box)

However, Arc and Haskell are fun to learn.. and you also need some C/C++/Java/C# background otherwise you're not serious right? Then, with this knowledge, it'd be a bit weird not to know Ruby and Perl. And some bash/sed/awk is required to work on a unix box.

Damn, I hate those pick "three programming language" questions.

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Re:If you could only learn three programming languages, whic... by dlsspy on Thursday December 09, 2010 @12:58PM (#1988340)
javascript has way too much in common with scheme. python is practical, but not different enough to really teach you much.

I program in three languages on most days (though not the same three all the time). These artificial constraints are difficult.

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