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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by samvher on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:46AM (#20857022)
I'm pretty sure Erlang, Prolog and Forth would blow your mind.
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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by codyb on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:02AM (#20857071)
Alternatively you can just grossly misuse them.
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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by johnchristopher on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:24AM (#20857134)
And C would blow his foot, like it does for everyone at some point ^^.
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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by userbinator on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:01AM (#20857267)
Or anything from the APL family such as APL itself, or the ASCII-only derivatives J and K.
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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by omeid2 on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:06AM (#20857084)
Prolog blows my mind ever time I come back to it.
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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by bobowzki on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:56AM (#20857237)
Yes, it's an amazing invention!
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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by lacampbell on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:18AM (#20857324)
Are there a lot of Erlang, Prolog and Forth jobs, where you are?

Face it, we all pretty much use the same 10 or so languages in industry.

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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by samvher on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:40AM (#20857415)
I'm working mostly in Erlang and from what I can tell there is quite some demand for Erlang and Elixir developers. Also there seems to be a lot of demand for Scala developers which while based on Java is not the same as those 10 languages. I've also used PostScript in a work context (which is stack based like Forth).
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Re:The more you learn, the faster you can learn by lacampbell on Monday September 02, 2019 @06:30PM (#20862186)
That's pretty cool. Erlang interests me, mainly because of what a amazing speaker the late great Joe Armstrong was. I don't really solve a lot of Erlang shaped problems right now, however.

My situation is this - people see my CV, see those languages, and immediately dismiss me for Java jobs. I think it's a short sighted decision, but it's the thinking that permeates the industry.

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