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What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anything-but-haskell dept.

simoniker writes "Over at Dobbs Code Talk, Chris Diggins has been discussing programming languages beyond C++ or Java, suggesting options such as Ruby ('does a great job of showing how powerful a dynamic language can be, and leverages powerful ideas from Smalltalk, Perl, and Lisp') but suggesting Scala as a first choice ('Very accessible to programmers from different backgrounds.') What would your choice be for programmers extending beyond their normal boundaries?"

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  1. Re:Verilog by exley · · Score: 5, Informative

    Verilog is a hardware description language, not a programming language. It may look like a high-level language -- wire assignments look like variable assignments, module instantiations look like function calls -- but conceptually it's completely different. Furthermore I don't know how applicable it's going to be for anyone who works in software design, which is the audience this question seems geared towards.

  2. Re:Verilog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a programming language for programming a type of CPU called an FPGA.

    It's not. It's a hardware description language, so can be used in FPGAs, but is equally used for ASIC designs.

    Furthermore, an FPGA is NOT a CPU of any kind. It's a configurable logic chip. You could program it as a CPU, but it's not one until you do.