Re: Language recommendations from ruby persons....

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> The intersection of practical and interesting may be quite small.

....and therefore more difficult to find. And so one asks questions....

> But if you are really looking for something that helps you think in a
> different direction, yet isn't merely academic or weird-for-weirdness
> sake, try a functional language such as Haskell.

Is this recommendation from experience? I am really looking for informed
opinions, particularly as enjoyment of a language tends not to be vicarious.

> Or consider OCaml; some folks here were discussing ways of writing binary
> Ruby extensions in OCaml as opposed to C which seemed quite interesting.

Yes, but why OCaml? Is it enjoyable? Learning curve...etc.., do you actually
have experience of it?

> Lisp, Haskell, and Ocaml are floating in the back of my own mind as
> candidates for next language to learn. Lisp has the upper hand so far,
> because, well, it's *Lisp*.

That does seem like a rather self-referential reason. I would probably not
choose Lisp on this particular recommendation.

>And there are lots of good, free resources for it.

Also for many other languages.

>>>the most part) from that wiki page, so maybe that makes them more
>>>popular. Now get to Googlin'.
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>>
>> ? I can't believe my eyes.
>>
>> Can someone tell me if I am talking to a troll?
>
> Well, they do exist and occasionally appear on this list. I suggest that,
> before you think someone a troll, try to be generous and just assume the
> poster is not a native speaker of English, and may have only skimmed your
> original post, and really means well but doesn't always come off well in
> plain text.

My response, IMO, was quite constrained.

Greg


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