That's one of the reasons I loved the "programming languages" course on coursera[0]. The course went through 3 languages, ML, Racket and Ruby giving 2 weeks to

That's one of the reasons I loved the "programming languages" course on coursera[0]. The course went through 3 languages, ML, Racket and Ruby giving 2 weeks to each language. And then spent time contrasting the weaknesses and strengths of the different languages and their paradigms. [0]https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages (Starts up again on the 9th of January :) )