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Poll: What's the programming language you want to learn most?

Posted by sb on Saturday March 24, 2012 @03:00PM
from the you-decide dept.
To complete the trinity of programming languages questions/polls, I think it would be nice to know which of the following languages fellow HN'ers want to learn most. Particulary interesting should be a comparison with the TIOBE index and see if their trends on a large scale compare well with the results of this poll.
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Poll

Actionscript 0 votes
Ada 0 votes
APL/J 6 votes
Assembly 9 votes
BETA 0 votes
Brainfuck 1 vote
C 18 votes
C++ 11 votes
C# 6 votes
Clojure 38 votes
Cobol 0 votes
CoffeeScript 10 votes
ColdFusion 0 votes
D 2 votes
Delphi 0 votes
Dylan 1 vote
Erlang 31 votes
Eiffel 2 votes
F# 7 votes
Factor 2 votes
Forth 3 votes
Fortran 0 votes
Groovy 2 votes
Go 49 votes
Haskell 62 votes
Icon 0 votes
Io 0 votes
Java 0 votes
JavaScript 20 votes
Lisp 18 votes
Lua 8 votes
Maple/Mathematica/Matlab 1 vote
Modula 0 votes
Oberon 1 vote
Objective C 19 votes
OCaml 6 votes
Oz 1 vote
Pascal 0 votes
Perl 5 votes
PHP 2 votes
Prolog 4 votes
Python 27 votes
REBOL 0 votes
Rexx 0 votes
RPG 0 votes
Ruby 13 votes
Scala 27 votes
Scheme 12 votes
Shell 2 votes
Smalltalk 2 votes
SNOBOL 0 votes
SQL 3 votes
Tcl 0 votes
Visual Basic 0 votes
Whitespace 1 vote
Other 1 vote
Re:Poll: What's the programming language you want to learn m... by tanoku on Saturday March 24, 2012 @03:13PM (#3750381)
Stop this, please. You're slowly turning HN into Reddit. There has never been, and will never be, intelligent discussion arising from a poll. This is not insight; this is gossip.
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Re:Poll: What's the programming language you want to learn m... by jordonwii on Saturday March 24, 2012 @03:49PM (#3750497)
I've been looking for things to replace/compile-to JavaScript lately. I've been messing around with Dart, which was my first experience with any form of static typing. The typing, among other features of the language, I enjoyed. I'm not sure if it's developed enough at this point, though, to be used in larger apps. Maybe that's just me.

I just decided to check out CoffeeScript. I think its syntax is fantastic, so far. Maybe a bit too spoken-language like ("yes" is equivalent to "true"?), but I haven't really done anything with it yet.

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Re:Poll: What's the programming language you want to learn m... by endlessvoid94 on Saturday March 24, 2012 @03:33PM (#3750446)
Fascinating that so many people want to learn Haskell. Did not expect that.
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Re:Poll: What's the programming language you want to learn m... by ExpiredLink on Saturday March 24, 2012 @04:35PM (#3750627)
Radical chic.
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Re:Poll: What's the programming language you want to learn m... by ExpiredLink on Saturday March 24, 2012 @03:13PM (#3750382)
Dart
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Re:Poll: What's the programming language you want to learn m... by DrHankPym on Saturday March 24, 2012 @03:16PM (#3750388)
Seriously? No. Do this on Reddit.
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Re:Poll: What's the programming language you want to learn m... by leric on Sunday March 25, 2012 @12:02AM (#3751675)
where's R?
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