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2012 February 24

Your favourite programming language

Great article explaining why you should learn MORE programming languages.

Why are so many developers so very emotional when it comes to their favourite programming language?

I believe that the primary reason people feel the need to vehemently defend a particular language is that they are lazy. Of course, good programmers are always lazy (why else automate?), but this is a specific and very bad laziness - being too lazy to learn. If my favourite language is better than anything else, or maybe at least just as good as anything else, I don’t have to spend time and effort learning new languages.

My advice: start with the different paradigms. Once you get the main programming paradigms - imperative and declarative, and more specifically the following mainstream subsets: procedural, object-oriented, functional, you will have no trouble learning any language that exists in… like, 1 hour.