Larry Wall: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know

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

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[Alexander Necheff]

You're new here aren't you? Facial hair is to programmers and sysadmins as tails to Saiyans.

[thishadowithin]

Shoeleather...Yummy

[Leonardo Cardozo Cadavid]

Java and Python FTW

[Carter Cole]

i love to hate java

[prairieeconomist]

Re: HTML not being a complete language...yes that is fair enough. Neither is SQL, depending on whose definition you choose. In my role both are must-haves.

[lethalsub]

Sorry for being pedantic, but I thought HTML is not strictly a programming language. R is an interesting choice... ahh, an economist, now it makes sense. I get the last four, considering your situation, but why the javascript?

In my situation, (lethalsub scratches his head) - C, python, perl, javascript... brainfuck (no, seriously, it depends on your situation).

[Virility]

Sweet Jesus. You sound like a shallow, superficial, miserable little prick.

[fuzioncube]

I didn't pretend to know the answer... I don't. However, I still support my question of "Who cares?" because no one cares (except you, I assume, since you asked).

[mercede75]

dont know, maybe he hated it?

[crossgate123]

programming in java is like eating 100 pounds of shoeleather, while C is eating 1 pound of steak.

can't disagree there.

[prairieeconomist]

As he says, the Top 5 depends on your situation.

Javascript I agree with. But where I am, the other 4 would be SQL / HTML / Visual Basic / R.