Picking a language for general purpose or hacking(most diverse)

Posted by joescript on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:58AM
from the self-post dept.

what is a good scripting/programming for general purpose or hacking to master.used C/C++,C#, Php, Python,Obj-C,Javascript,Java,python and ruby a bit.but i seem to be feel like there's something always missing. i am looking for a batteries include,good community and flexible to code with. any idea?

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Re:Picking a language for general purpose or hacking(most di... by 0942v8653 on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:18AM (#9206374)

Python. Really, it has everything you probably need for whatever scripting you're doing, and plenty of stdlib and community to go around. If you're looking for something different try a Lisp or maybe Haskell but nothing really beats Python for simple scripting (except shell, of course, which has easy access to everything on your computer…)

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Re:Picking a language for general purpose or hacking(most di... by joescript on Sunday March 15, 2015 @06:19PM (#9208455)

Hello Again added a form http://goo.gl/forms/2VZAXFOigk for votes

Please pass the word, it would be nice to get a real world vote base on the internet and not some one sided community of organization

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Re:Picking a language for general purpose or hacking(most di... by informatimago on Sunday March 15, 2015 @01:09PM (#9207179)

Common Lisp. http://cliki.net/Getting+Started Scheme. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

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Re:Picking a language for general purpose or hacking(most di... by joescript on Sunday March 15, 2015 @01:51PM (#9207315)

Hmm Lisp, I will give That a try while I study python. Doesn't hurt to try. thanks @informatimago also a question do you think clojure is a good alternative? huge lib for the language because of all the jars out thier

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Re:Picking a language for general purpose or hacking(most di... by informatimago on Monday March 16, 2015 @01:15PM (#9212772)

You can have access to jar libs from Common Lisp with ABCL too. http://abcl.org/

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Re:Picking a language for general purpose or hacking(most di... by joescript on Monday March 16, 2015 @01:45PM (#9212980)

cool i will check it out,thanks

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Re:Picking a language for general purpose or hacking(most di... by joescript on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:36AM (#9206424)

I do like the language a lot, maybe I will do that.it just a lot of the people liked it. I'm not the following the coward type. maybe I will master this. it just sometimes it's hard and crazy out there trying to find one for you :)

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Re:Picking a language for general purpose or hacking(most di... by joescript on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:45AM (#9206455)

also any thoughts on lua or ruby lua: lightweight ruby: joy of coding

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