Re: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn?

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:28:12AM -0500, Toby Thain wrote: As a systems guy who likes to get all the perf he can out of the machine, those are not what I'd reach for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. I still like C, it's what I reach for first. Go might be second. For scripting I designed http://little-lang.org which looks a lot like interpreted C with a bunch of neat extensions (ever wanted strings in your switch() statement? How about regexps?). I The listed languages are what a very small set of programmers passionately love but they never go anywhere because the rank and file programmers don't get it. I can think of lots of examples where some smart dude pushed lisp in a company and it either never went anywhere or it died when the dude left. There is a lot to be said for programming in the most simple way possible, we had a saying at my company "Write code so it is the most readable. Because 6 months from now you'll not remember it, it will be like reading someone else's code". Code is write once, read many. Optimize for that.