[plug] What programming languages are popular in Perth?

[Daniel Axtens]

On 04/04/2013, at 5:32 PM, Andrew Cooks <acooks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi PLUG!
> 
> I have two questions for the developers among us:
> 
> 1. What programming language do you rely on to pay the bills?
JavaScript. Oh, so much JavaScript. A bit of Python and PHP.

> 2. What programming language would you prefer to use, if different
> from the above?
I'd ultimately prefer to not program for a living. One day…
In the mean time, maybe a strongly-typed and statically-typed high-level language, preferably one that forces you to declare variables before using them. (I should really get around to learning Haskell.)

-- d
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> a.
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