What's a neat, underrated Programming Language?

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: Yomicron
Smalltalk

Smalltalk was fun but ML takes the cake. ML taught me how to think is such a different way than I was used to.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Delphi, aka Object Oriented Pascal.

 

[cKGunslinger]

I suggest Brainfvck.

*sigh* ..and because of the filter, you'll have cut-n-paste the link:

http://cydathria.com/bf/brainfvck.htm (replace that 'v' with a 'u')

 

[royaldank]

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[akubi]

python is not underrated.

ruby.

 

[statik213]

Try some functional languages like scheme or lisp.... lets you do some pretty neat things...
Prolog is kinda cool too....

 

[statik213]

Originally posted by: notfred
Smalltalk, or Objective-C?

Isn't this C++, Java all over again?

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: akubi
python is not underrated.

ruby.

ruby seems very interesting.. like a shift in programming paradigm or something

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: statik213
Try some functional languages like scheme or lisp.... lets you do some pretty neat things...
Prolog is kinda cool too....

scheme is teh sux0r

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
Learn Forth.

The entire language is based around a Stack. Generally used for embedded systems and robotics, but can be used to make applications as well. Look up the book Thinking Forth.

I bought that book many years back(10+) and the Language looked real cool. Unfortunetly I never really got into it.

 

[bofkentucky]

Forth is great, plus you can work your magic on the Sun Sparc boot prom (it is a forth interpreter)

 

[doornail]

Python is a joy to code in.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: screw3d

Originally posted by: akubi
python is not underrated.

ruby.

ruby seems very interesting.. like a shift in programming paradigm or something

They seem pretty damn similar to me. Neither are really revolutionary, just evolutionary.

 

[filterxg]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Delphi, aka Object Oriented Pascal.

If you call this obscure, then this would get my vote.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: filterxg

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Delphi, aka Object Oriented Pascal.

If you call this obscure, then this would get my vote.

I wouldn't call it obscure. Pretty mainstream I guess. Never heard of Borland Delphi?

 

[sunase]

I second the Perl suggestion. I don't even like it (I prefer stricter programming languages where the compiler and IDE can actually help catch mistakes instead of make clueless guesses like they do in Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.) and still use it constantly for glue and simple apps.

I suspect the size of CPAN (repository of scripts/modules/libraries) absolutely dwarfs what's available for Python and Ruby as well. Nearly every time I've had to write something in Perl there's been something in CPAN to make implementation easier.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: filterxg

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Delphi, aka Object Oriented Pascal.

If you call this obscure, then this would get my vote.

I wouldn't call it obscure. Pretty mainstream I guess. Never heard of Borland Delphi?

Damn fine language but I wouldn't reccomend it for this sort of summer (uh, I meant semester). It's not fundamentally different than any of the really mainstream languages and, from what I gather, it's only really obscure in North America for some reason.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: filterxg

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Delphi, aka Object Oriented Pascal.

If you call this obscure, then this would get my vote.

I wouldn't call it obscure. Pretty mainstream I guess. Never heard of Borland Delphi?

Damn fine language but I wouldn't reccomend it for this sort of summer. It's not fundamentally different than any of the really mainstream languages and, from what I gather, it's only really obscure in North America for some reason.

It's really nice but you are right, it's unusual here but very common in Europe.

 

[Maluno]

Originally posted by: ArmchairAthlete

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

Originally posted by: znaps
Python

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

 

[LuckyTaxi]

i vote perl and python ... but i suck so im sticking with PHP

 

[imported_Collector]

If you want to have the chick-attracting status of carrying a pocket protector, you could always learn FORTRAN. To get the full experience, pick a flavor pre-FORTRAN 77.

 

[mugs]

CLIPS
http://www.ghg.net/clips/CLIPS.html

That'll really test your ability to think beyond what you learn in class. (because it's not at all similar to anything else you've learned)

 

[Chebago]

Originally posted by: Zontor
A vote for Ruby

I second...

 

[boran]

cobol all the way, if you havent got RSI now you will be having it afterwards.

 

[kamper]

All this talk has made me wish for a semester where I could just forget about the traditional languages and stretch my brain by learning something completely different :sigh;