Re:What programming languages should I learn and why?
by mynameishere on Sunday May 20, 2007 @12:15AM
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Now, you're going to hear a lot about how wonderful LISP (etc, etc) is, but remember that almost every _real_ application is in C (Unix), C++ (games, other desktop apps), or Java (50 million goddawful enterprise backends).
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Re:What programming languages should I learn and why?
by BrandonM on Sunday May 20, 2007 @07:24PM
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That might be true of "almost every _real_" desktop application, although on my Linux install, I have a healthy amount of Python and Perl programs. As for quickly prototyped web applications, I think that Lisp, Python, Perl, and Ruby far outnumber Java and C/C++ (with Java far outnumbering C/C++).