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This is going to sound a tad trite but - the answer is all of them that I use. I never stop learning new ideas and it is just great when you get to switch a tec

by bdfh42 17y ago

This is going to sound a tad trite but - the answer is all of them that I use. I never stop learning new ideas and it is just great when you get to switch a technique or construct fro one language to another. One thing I have learned is that there is nothing that you can do in one language that you can't do in another (assuming Turing complete of course and excluding the odd API call with particularly strange data types - is that cheating?)

j-g-faustus 17y ago
>One thing I have learned is that there is nothing that you can do in one language that you can't do in another While this is true, I have also learned that there are significant differences in convenience and ease of development, that libraries matter a lot for actual applications (as opposed to experimenting to get the 'feel' for a language), and that the new concepts and coding-and-code-structuring conventions I learn along with a new language may be as important as the language itself. Among my formative experiences, I'd list C, Lisp, Java (namespaces and Javadoc), Javascript and Erlang - they take quite different approaches to computing.