Learning an Obscure Programming Language

L.Jenkins · 13-11-2014 10:15pm #1

Looking for ideas on what obscure programming languages I could learn or newish languages that are becoming more popular. I was thinking of learning Cobol, but it reminds me of ASM a little too much. I am open to giving it a go as some industries seem to be reliant on it. I am taking an interest in Dart, developed by Google if I am correct.

kyote00 · 13-11-2014 10:30pm

Give brain**** a try

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain****

Fate Amenable To Change · 13-11-2014 11:40pm

Itzy wrote: »

Looking for ideas on what obscure programming languages I could learn or newish languages that are becoming more popular. I was thinking of learning Cobol, but it reminds me of ASM a little too much. I am open to giving it a go as some industries seem to be reliant on it. I am taking an interest in Dart, developed by Google if I am correct.

Node.js??? Not obscure but it is newish and gaining a bit of momentum

L.Jenkins · 14-11-2014 12:01am

kyote00 wrote: »

Give brain**** a try

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain****

Holy fúck, doesn't begin to describe my initial thoughts on the language :P I'll have a look into Node.js

fergalr · 14-11-2014 9:31am

I've been doing some Scala lately. Its pretty nice.

I'm starting to think C++ : C as Scala : Java
For all the good and bad that entails.

L.Jenkins · 14-11-2014 10:30am

Scala looks like something I'd have a look at.

fcrossen · 14-11-2014 12:34pm

http://www.adamlynch.com/ked/ :-)

Idleater · 14-11-2014 1:07pm

fcrossen wrote: »

http://www.adamlynch.com/ked/ :-)

cool!

in similar vein:
http://lolcode.org/language.html

Fate Amenable To Change · 14-11-2014 1:59pm

Idleater wrote: »

cool!

in similar vein:
http://lolcode.org/language.html

Ill see you http://dogescript.com/

Jim2007 · 14-11-2014 2:59pm

fcrossen wrote: »

http://www.adamlynch.com/ked/ :-)

Sounds like a competition, who can implement a DSL for Cork based on this???

Journeyman_1 · 14-11-2014 7:46pm

I have a friend who really likes Go, says its a great language, and it will probably become big in the next few years.

maxmarmalade · 15-11-2014 9:32am

R is going to be big http://www.r-project.org/

Phoebas · 15-11-2014 9:38am

Fate Amenable To Change wrote: »

Node.js??? Not obscure but it is newish and gaining a bit of momentum

Node.js isn't a language - its a javascript framework.

fergalr · 15-11-2014 9:39am

maxmarmalade wrote: »

R is going to be big http://www.r-project.org/

R is going to be eaten by Python.

(I mean, obviously I don't *know* this, but it seems pretty likely to me, having used both: python is much cleaner, and gaining real momentum in the areas R is strong.)

Talisman · 16-11-2014 9:29am

If you want to give your brain a workout then try concurrent programming.

Erlang
Scala
Clojure
Go

Fate Amenable To Change · 16-11-2014 1:13pm

Phoebas wrote: »

Node.js isn't a language - its a javascript framework.

Are you always this pedantic?

Phoebas · 16-11-2014 1:17pm

Fate Amenable To Change wrote: »

Are you always this pedantic?

I was thinking about learning that new language 'Webstorm 8' myself.

Talisman · 16-11-2014 8:12pm

Phoebas wrote: »

I was thinking about learning that new language 'Webstorm 8' myself.

WebStorm 8 is so last year!

Phoebas · 16-11-2014 8:48pm

Talisman wrote: »

WebStorm 8 is so last year!

I'm still back in the dark ages on WebStorm 7

hussey · 17-11-2014 2:45am

If you want to learn scala try the free coursera course on functional programming
bunch of video lectures from the creator and fun programming assignments
https://class.coursera.org/progfun-005

If you want to look at a new way of looking at things, have a look at Node.js backbone(or similar) and a NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB)

Procasinator · 17-11-2014 6:15pm

Rust is interesting.

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