From: Elliott Cable Date: 2009-07-21T15:11:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Do you program in any other language except for ruby? Milan Dobrota wrote: > Do you program in any other language except for ruby? And what are they? :) Ruby is my primary language, and the first one I ever learned in full, but I have learnt quite a lot of other languages to some extent. I enjoy learning them. I really love Io (http://iolanguage.com/) and Objective-C (primarily for developing in Apple���s Cocoa framework for OS X and the iPhone OS), and am fully fluent in them as well. I���m passable in C, since there���s often times in Ruby or ObjC where dropping into C is necessary/prudent (moreso in Ruby than ObjC, of course). I���m passably familiar and attempting to become more familiar with JavaScript, as it���s an absolutely amazing language (very under���appreciated IMVHO), but I seem to have a lot of trouble really coming to grips with it like I have with other languages. Though it���s not a programming language, it���s worth mentioning that I consider myself to have completely mastered regular expressions; I use them for absolutely everything, and am considering writing my own engine (an open���source C/ObjC one that supports variable���width look���behinds, goddamnit! Why are there so few that do, it is hard, sure, but it���s damn near the most useful feature any engine could have!) A straight���up list of the other languages I know, but don���t really care about that much beyond when they���ve provided use to me: Perl, sh/bash/zsh, Java, Lua, AppleScript, MIPS and x86 flavours of Assembler, TI���BASIC (what else was I supposed to do in high school math classes?) and probably a bunch of others I���ve forgotten. That���s my problem, really. I have a horrible memory, and very quickly forget anything I learn and don���t use continuously. As for languages I���m interested in learning when I have the time���Erlang, Mythryl (http://mythryl.org/), D, Haskell, Scala, Clojure/Common Lisp, and so on. Anything that might give me a new perspective on programming. Also, Python, to let me play with Django���I really miss web development, but Rails is so horrible that it���s driven me leagues away and into lower���level web���less stuff. I���m hoping Django will suck less. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.