Larry Wall: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know

Java is "heavyweight, verbose, and everyone loves to hate it," but Wall still thinks you should know it.

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[thaer12345]

10/10 pedostache.

[PoorRichardSaunders]

@zangetsu2K8 Along those lines if you know your CS then not only is learning a new language a trivial matter, but you should also recognize that good style and utilization of the language is far more difficult than simply learning the languages syntax and Libraries. I've see a lot of horrendous code even by people who have formal training. Believing that one is a competent programmer just because one "knows" a language is like believing that one is a good writer just because they know English.

[DeathNote123Fan]

@douglasrj21

I'm pretty sure no one who is doing professional video editing, wants to do it over the internet.

There are also going to be a lot of normal games (priced about 40€ on their release, not the ones you play using just your browser, operating systems, software to create these 3d-models for movies and games, maybe there's going to be new software when 4k2k or even higher video becomes normal (or "Ultra High Definition", or something like that, I heard the first TVs r planned 2020)

[animals0feel1pain2]

Ah. Man, I remember playing games written using Perl back when I was 7. Those were the good days.

[narcosist]

@VyoamX ahah perl last, modest much :P

[TheBowlcutBandit]

It depends what you do really, web design means HTML, CSS, PHP/ASP, JavaScript. Cross platform means C/C++/Java/Python/Ruby/Lua. FAST but PLATFORM SPECIFIC, also C/C++ and Assembly. So it depends what you're doing to choose a language because ALL are good for one thing, but not ALL can do everything and so much more to consider.

[BitchBeTrollinHard]

he is like ricky bobby "im not sure what to do with my hands"

[Vidyadude]

Master of analogies.

[1337ASM]

<3 java , <3 C