Asa Martin <[email protected]> writes: > Hi everyone, > > Hope this isn't too off-topic, but I've relocated to the Boston area > recently and am looking for a job. I've been a Perl hacker since the late > 90s and consider it my first (and still favorite) language. However, I'd > like to update my skillset to include some other languages. I've worked in > the past using some PHP and JavaScript and have a casual knowledge of Python > and Ruby. I've also done a fair about of SQL. > > Any suggestions from this group as to what would make sense to put effort > into learning next to make myself more marketable in the Boston area? > > Should I try and learn Java? If so, any recommendations as to > books/tutorials? > > What about Ruby or Python? Would those be useful together with Perl or are > they usually mutually exclusive? > > Anything else?
I've been trying to learn Common Lisp, myself, but have different motivations than you do (my sense is that people who remain willing to maintain large ugly clumps of C++ on Microsoft platforms in exchange for money need not be proactive about shaping their careers, at least in the short term). I've been using Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp and sometimes Practical Common Lisp, which you can read online if you're someone who believes in starving authors. Paul Graham has another good book, which I think you can only get electronically now, about using macros in Lisp called On Lisp, which I've read snatches of and liked. I also have a copy of Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming which I intend to read someday. When I've mastered Lisp, or sometime before that, I hope to try Smalltalk and Perl 6. -- Mike Small [email protected] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
