23 Dec
2019
23 Dec
'19
3:36 a.m.
On Sun, 22 Dec 2019, Arthur Krewat wrote:
Define "popular" - what's actually in
use, versus what people want to
use. And job listings versus research. Both of those would lead to
different results ;)
I've been keeping a list of all the languages that I've ever used since I
was a stripling; it's up to 48, and that's counting all assembly languages
as one etc. That's about one language for every year that I've been a
programmer :-)
Yes, I try and teach myself a new language whenever possible; I'm
currently looking at Ruby as a lightweight replacement for Perl (I run
screaming from Python and its silly indentation), and Perl/Tk for a GUI
for some scripts that I wrote (mostly puzzle solvers).
-- Dave