10 programming languages you should learn right now!

[vezzy]

COBAL

You mean COBOL.

And I hope you're fucking kidding.

[Darkvision]

You mean COBOL.

And I hope you're fucking kidding.

i do, i could have sworn i hit O again...and why would i be kidding, old doesnt mean "bad" both COBOL and RPG are old yes, but they have also been continuously upgraded over the years. Lansa was in a category by itself. It's my moms favorite language and i cant blame her for it, it deals with a whole mess of protocols, can change a program from say c# into lansa, or lansa to c#, html etc and the language itself is well structured. just because its primarily used in a business environment doesnt mean the language is bad, or unworthy of being listed. As far as i know it was the first major language to try to (and successfully) allow that kind of interchangeable language/compiling.

[Deque]

Just for shits and giggles, here is my list with no actual order by importance. Mine is more oriented on trying different paradigms.

1. C (the standard procedural language)
2. Smalltalk (the definitive object-oriented language)
3. Lisp (functional programming and historical significance, it pioneered such concepts as dynamic typing and recursion)
4. Assembly (low-level concepts, understanding of CPU registers and machine instructions)
5. Java (for enterprise purposes and to get a feel of the actual contemporary object-oriented paradigm)
6. Prolog (logic programming and artificial intelligence)
7. Python, Perl, Ruby or Tcl (any general purpose scripting language, preferably Python or Perl)
8. JavaScript (client-side web scripting, aspect-oriented programming)
9. Shell scripting + sed, AWK and bc (system administration, pipeline programming, general purpose tasks)
10. REBOL (language-oriented programming)

Additional/alternate picks: Haskell, Pascal, C++

I like that list. *thumbs up*

[str0be]

Oh man, COBOL. I bet a guru pulls a pretty good salary. But just look at it:

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---- hello.cob -------------------------
     * Sample COBOL program
      IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
      PROGRAM-ID. hello.
      PROCEDURE DIVISION.
      DISPLAY "Hello World!".
      STOP RUN.
----------------------------------------

Example exploit targeting GIMP:
http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/45647.cob

My eyes are bleeding 

A few interesting languages:

• Rust
• Erlang
• CoffeeScript
• Haxe

[Zesh]

Shakespeare Programming Language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_%28programming_language%29