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As one of the working (i.e. not yet retired) stiffs, I don't really have time to learn languages that I'm not likely to use.
Having said that, I have learnt Python, am learning the additions to C++ (C++14, and the proposals for C++17), and trying to come up to speed on the latest changes to C#.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: and trying to come up to speed on the latest changes to C#.
VS2017 just auto-completed a property getter with a lambda "throw not implemented" expression, to which my response was, WTF is that? Discovered it's a C# 6.0 feature that I didn't know about. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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How about something totally different, like putting graphics hardware to good use?
If you really want to have graphics, then HLSL (High Level Shader Language) is the way to go, but if you want to use the GPU for real number crunching, you might need something that's a little more general and less geared towards graphics.
What kind of number crunching? How about AI? Neural networks needs a few (matrix) calculations and GPUs are very good at that.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: like putting graphics hardware to good use?
Yes indeed!
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It is interesting how your 'passion' can affect the language of choice.
Currently, I am working with OSISoft technologies and, because of that, don't actually do a lot of 'programming' per se; I do a lot of equation configuration using functions within the applications and that can test my reasoning ability at times.
Having said that, I do most of my programming with the application in VB.NET. Why VB.NET? Familiarity.
Given time, I'd like to learn C# and start writing my code in there, but.. I write so little code it isn't time effective to really learn the language.
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R probably... although that might be more about the types of problems I'd use it for than the language itself.
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I want to learn C# (I know a very limited subset of it, but not fluent for real work) and Swift.
After that, all the web oriented languages (javascript and all related .JS stuff).
I'd rather be phishing!
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Been hearing good things about Go and Clojure 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I want to learn how on earth other devs have learnt to be productive when working with JavaScript & CSS or WCF configuration files
modified 22-Mar-17 12:18pm.
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R and Python. Those seem to be big in the algo trading world.
You can't win.
You can't break even.
You can't quit.
You're welcome.
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I had to put it off for a while but have been learning the MEAN stack for some Pi projects I have in mind.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Not learn, but suddenly gain 10 years experience in: Java. Whilst in the job market, I've passed over so many really good opportunities that demand high levels of Java experience. I could learn the language properly in a week.
Otherwise: Ruby. I'm already learning Python and TypeScript, and new languages like 'GO' haven't made my TODO) list yet.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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If time permits I would like to learn D.
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Eventually it would be great to go with C# anytime with Mircrosoft's IDE...
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I'm risking a lot here, but... Javascript.
Not because I think it's an interesting language, but because of the implications. If I was learning Javascript well enough to become proficient, that would mean I was doing web programming, which means my job security and ability to find another were that much greater.
My current skill set centers around C++/C#/C, Windows desktop, and process control applications. COBOL programmers have a higher success rate at finding jobs than that.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Prolog... no reason, just for fun...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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F# is pretty awesome. It's a functional-first language with access to all the .NET APIs you know and love. It's also just a really good language. Compared to C#, it makes lots of common and useful things easy to code (collection literals, record types, discriminated unions), and has some particularly powerful and interesting advanced features (computation expressions, type providers).
There are lots of other interesting languages (Swift, Rust, and Clojure are high on my list as well), but especially if you're comfortable in the .NET/Visual Studio world, F# is really outstanding.
(End fanboigasm)
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Waiting for the-language-that-is-to-succeed-C# .
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I think that something that is well accepted in robotics circles might be useful. It seems to me that there will be a demand for folks that can read, understand, add-to, and clean up half-baked Python and C++ as more and more machines enter the workforce. There will, it seems to me, be a real demand to fix some legacy boggles.
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Piet.
I have a soft spot for esoteric languages and the novelty of Piet really calls to me.
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Why do things like that never happen to me? oh.. right... I don't have a car.
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Sheep are such stupid animals that they can't think and walk at the same time. Give them any decision (e.g. left or right of the car) and they just stand still.
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