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Re:Programming Languages to watch in 2011 by tocomment on Monday December 13, 2010 @10:56AM (#2000802)
What did he do wrong?
Re:Programming Languages to watch in 2011 by thomas11 on Monday December 13, 2010 @11:09AM (#2000857)
Search for the string "scheme", as his trends link shows. That's a pretty common term, while "scala", "lua" etc. have no meaning other than the language, at least as far as a job site is concerned.

www.indeed.com redirects to www.indeed.ch here, but there I get nine hits for "scala" and 153 for "scheme". The scheme hits are all "Creates validation scheme with manufacturing site" etc.

Re:Programming Languages to watch in 2011 by burgerbrain on Monday December 13, 2010 @11:30AM (#2000950)
Scheme is a niche language, and it's niche is education. It's almost never used in industry because it lacks a single popular standard library adds enough functionality to make it practical to use in the real world. In general, you don't write a practical scheme application, you write a practical [insert implementation]-scheme application.
Re:Programming Languages to watch in 2011 by Tichy on Monday December 13, 2010 @10:59AM (#2000818)
Erlang will never have the same appeal to the masses as Python, not will it be as efficient at everyday scripting tasks.