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I think it's a pity that you focus on general purpose programming languages. In place of perl, I would put 11) A domain specific programming language. Perl co

by Wilduck 15y ago

I think it's a pity that you focus on general purpose programming languages. In place of perl, I would put 11) A domain specific programming language. Perl could be an example (text manipulation) but could also include R (statistics), Frink (units of measure), etc.

exDM69 15y ago
Arguably, Prolog would fall into the category of domain specific languages.
- Wilduck 15y ago
  True. While I'm not experienced with Prolog my impression is that it's often embedded in other languages, which I see as a very positive thing. Beyond simply knowing a large amount of languages I think it's important for a programmer to be proficient at getting different languages/environments to operate together, as this opens up the ability to use domain specific languages. So, kudos, Prolog is probably a perfect example of this.