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user-inactivated  ·  3645 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What language(s) are you currently learning?

Hey, we all have our own opinions and preferences. :) Python is definitely one of the best general programming languages, it's just not for me.

If you ever look into Lisp, make sure you learn a dialect and not Common Lisp. Also, the syntax will look completely alien to someone with experience only in Python and JavaScript.

What kind of applications are you looking to develop?





rob05c  ·  3645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    make sure you learn a dialect and not Common Lisp

Why do you say that?

user-inactivated  ·  3645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In terms of actually utilizing the language in applications, there are more options for Scheme and Clojure when compared to Common Lisp.

rob05c  ·  3645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's interesting. I definitely agree about Clojure. But I was under the impression there were a lot more Common Lisp applications out there than Scheme. I don't know, I'm not an expert in any of them.

user-inactivated  ·  3645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Neither am I. I simply do my best to learn, so please try to disprove me if I'm wrong.

user-inactivated  ·  3645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have worked with a few languages already but these are my current interests. Yeah I briefly have looked at Lisp I remember the unique syntax. I'm looking to make web applications, APIs, mobile apps.

user-inactivated  ·  3645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah! My uncle is a computer scientist and often creates mobile applications with Sencha Touch. What languages have you worked with?

user-inactivated  ·  3645 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Cool, I'll have to look into Sencha more, I was considering using PhoneGap but this looks really nice! I have used PHP and Perl mostly, with predominantly web programming in jQuery, Coffeescript, or vanilla JS. Recently went back and took a class in C to get some fundamentals, and worked through some tutorials in Ruby but nothing in depth.

For a while I was researching node.js for my current project but I ended up switching to Python with Flask at the last minute because I was running into a ton of issues with the automated node build tools and dependency hell. I'd still like to try node again for an api but so far Flask is working really nicely.