How I became a better programmer (2017)

Re:How I became a better programmer (2017) by SaxonRobber on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @02:42AM (#22682489)

I'd add that spending some time to play with the languages that are hard or different will pay dividends down the road.

Learning some Haskell was probably the most worthwhile time I have spent learning a language because it forced me to fundamentally reevaluate how I think about programming. Now I don't use Haskell at work, and likely never will; but, years later, the techniques I learned from it I still apply daily when I write C, Python, JS or whatever. It made my code far cleaner.

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Re:How I became a better programmer (2017) by ben-schaaf on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:31AM (#22684309)

Whenever a newish programmer has asked me what language they should learn next I always say prolog. I fully expect them to never touch the language afterwards, but writing prolog was a truly a mind opening experience. More so than learning functional programming imo.

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Re:How I became a better programmer (2017) by LandR on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:21AM (#22684248)

I feel this same way about Clojure, I won't likely ever use it professionally, but it's made me a better programmer having learned it.

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