| > How many of them really bring something new to the table, a better way than the old one? 'Better' being subjective, but there are languages, or classes of languages, that bring new paradigms that change the way you approach a problem. Some may work better with the way you mentally model a problem, or they may naturally help with modeling certain problems. So we've got... - Imperative sub-procedure languages, like C, Algol, Fortran, etc. - Object-oriented variants of C, like C++, Java, C#. - Smalltalk, and Smalltalk OOP based languages like Ruby and Objective-C. - Forth, a stack-based programming language. - Tcl, a command-based programming language. - Unix shells, string-based programming languages. - Lua/JavaScript, prototypal/hashtable oriented languages. - Lisp, tree/list-oriented languages. These are the languages/classes of languages you should study, if you want to see something different. Something that may change the way you think. |