On Monday 19 Jul 2010 19:02:59 rob levy wrote: > I don't think anyone has mentioned Haskell yet in this thread. One of the > major Perl 6 implementations is done in Haskell, so it could be relevant > from that angle.
That major Perl 6 implementation is Pugs ( http://www.pugscode.org/ ) and it's no longer actively maintained (possibly due to the fact that its initiator and major contributor had become affected by some disease). Nowadays it seems that the most promising implementation is Rakudo ( http://rakudo.org/ ) which is built above Parrot, and will have its "Rakudo Star" release by 29 of this month. That put aside, Haskell is an enlightening language to learn and experiment with (though I believe it's not suitable for use for production code). Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Also, I would second those who suggest Clojure as a great language to > learn. > > Rob > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Asa Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 don't want to start a language war as to what language is > > "theoretically best", but instead wondering what languages are > > "practically best", i.e., most often coupled (or tripled, etc.) with > > Perl in this area. > > > > Of course, actual job offers are welcome too ;-) > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Asa > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Boston-pm mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
