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Ask HN: Which language would you study if you started going to university now?
I'm going to university next year and I'll have to choose between a Java class, .NET (so C#?) class and C++ class. Background: It's a bioinformatics major (CS minor), but I'm interested in programming in general, data science, etc. (and Python rules there, anyway). I think they'll going to teach us Python anyway + on of those three languages.
Which one of those three would you choose? Also, a bonus question, if you didn't have to choose one from those three, which language would you choose to study?
- Vosporos 8y agoIf I could go to Uni and pick whatever, I wouldn't pick a language. But I'd rather learn about stuff like Categoy Theory and Functional Programming, because these are topic for which I feel I would need a academic formal framework. Never studying CS didn't prevent me from learning Haskell, Erlang, etc, but I would have loved learning the formal, academic aspects of their underlying theory
- Eugeleo 8y agoYeah, there's plety of that stuff, too (cat. theory, nonprocedural programming etc.). But apart from this, one has to choose one of those three languages.