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Re:Ask HN: Recommended programming language expect PHP by pwg on Friday June 07, 2024 @01:54PM (#40611091)
If you want to study one that is in a somewhat different vein, TCL will give you a broader viewpoint. Its syntax tends somewhat towards the LISP end of the spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl

Re:Ask HN: Recommended programming language expect PHP by billy99k on Friday June 07, 2024 @01:49PM (#40611031)
Pascal or Visual basic
Re:Ask HN: Recommended programming language expect PHP by kusaimara on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:21PM (#40611405)
It's a language I don't hear much these days.

What purpose is it used?

Re:Ask HN: Recommended programming language expect PHP by gus_massa on Saturday June 08, 2024 @09:49AM (#40617532)
I still think that Classic Visual Basic 6 is the best tool to make a small app with a user friendly GUI that has a few buttons and you can distribute to end users and they can just click, be happy and think you are some kind of genius. Anyway, it's kind of dead :( , so I don't recomend to start with it now.

I'm still amazed how much I could do with a dozen of lines of PHP and Javascript, and make a simple web app, that I can deploy anywhere and my colegues be happy because I solver our problem.

(I never used Pascal (well, perhaps a hundred of LOC in total), but the old Borland Pascal compiler was extremly fast and good when it was released.)

Re:Ask HN: Recommended programming language expect PHP by tithos on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:07PM (#40611232)
Literally any other lang. lol
Re:Ask HN: Recommended programming language expect PHP by pestatije on Friday June 07, 2024 @05:27PM (#40613162)
since u know (or will know) server-side...go for the rest: html, css, javascript
Re:Ask HN: Recommended programming language expect PHP by bhu1st on Saturday June 08, 2024 @04:39AM (#40616199)
Did you dislike PHP? If no build a couple of projects in PHP first before learning another language.
Re:Ask HN: Recommended programming language expect PHP by kusaimara on Monday June 10, 2024 @12:57AM (#40630299)
No, I like PHP. I make some program.
Re:Ask HN: Recommended programming language expect PHP by gus_massa on Saturday June 08, 2024 @09:38AM (#40617473)
The question is what do you want to do? Do you want to continue programing web apps in the server?

It's not my area, so you may look a better opinion, but i suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript