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Re:Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python by A1kmm on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @05:31AM (#2045128)
Haskell (or another functional language). It may not yet be as widely used industrially as some other languages, but it will improve the way you think about programming, and it is also of great practical utility. I find it the easiest of the many languages I've tried over my lifetime to get a working program in a short space of time.
Re:Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python by dagw on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @05:40AM (#2045138)
Even though I've never used Haskell for anything other than playing around with toy examples, I'm really glad I learnt it. If nothing else I became a far better python programmer after having learned Haskell.