In article <mailman.3913.1386778687.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 11/12/2013 16:04, Chris Angelico wrote: > > I strongly believe that a career > > programmer should learn as many languages and styles as possible, but > > most of them can wait. > > I chuckle every time I read this one. Five years per language, ten > languages, that's 50 years I think. Or do I rewrite my diary for next > week, so I learn Smalltalk Monday morning, Ruby Monday afternoon, Julia > Tuesday morning ... Not counting little side explorations, I have used in anger (and in vaguely chronological order): Basic Fortran C Various assemblers (pdp-10, pdp-11, IBM-1130, M6800) Common Lisp Postscript Python TCL Perl Java C++ Javascript -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list