[plug] What programming languages are popular in Perth?

Andrew Cooks acooks at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 07:43:32 UTC 2013


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Daniel Axtens <danielax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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…
>
I hear this way too often.

> 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.)
>
Have you looked at Go?

I thought the Python and C++ people would've jumped in by now.  C'mon,
don't be shy.

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