[sf-perl] OT: New language to learn? Erlang?

[Fred Moyer]

This link might prove good reading for this topic:

http://blog.timbunce.org/?s=popularity

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Daniel Lo <woof at danlo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I've been snooping around for a new language to learn. While I superficially
> know a lot of languages or have studied them in the past, my hard core languages
> are Perl and Php. I have been thinking it is time to learn another language to
> my "hard core" list.
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> I want to party move away from the scripting languages to diversify my skill
> set. As a final requirement, I need to be able find a job writing in this
> language.
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> I've been snooping around and there appear to be 2 languages out there that
> interest me.
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> "Lua" is a strong embedded language with salability and is being drafted in to
> more and more applications and games. http://www.lua.org (World of Warcraft,
> MySQL, etc...)
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> "Erlang" is a strong HA/salability language that has a REALLY neat/cool
> architecture behind it. http://www.erlang.org (Telecom business, Yaws, etc..)
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> >From what I've heard from individual friends is that Erlang the better future of
> the two in terms of a job.
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> I currently have a job and I have time to put into learning a new language. Does
> anyone have a language that they would like to suggest?
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> -daniel
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> Best regards,
>  Daniel                          mailto:woof at danlo.com
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