What language to learn as per curiosity?

Question

I use ASM (some), C, js, lua, Python, Ruby, Perl, Objective-C, Java and a couple of shell variants on a daily basis.

I also know, or have looked into golang, C++, PHP and maybe others I forgot.

I have been coding for 15 years now, and I'm looking at something fun to learn, I don't mean something useful for business, but something interesting and refreshing for the mind.

Any idea?

Answer 1

Haskell, Common Lisp/Scheme

Answer 2

Haskell. What else?

Answer 3

Functional programming languages : OCaml or F#

Answer 4

mayby Go! - refreshing for the mind an You can just test something new.

Answer 5

Prolog.

Answer 6

Something like Prolog or Erlang. Something that doesn't follow the same sort of imperative model that the other languages in your experience have.

Answer 7

• F#, Haskell, Erlang - for a bit of functional fun.
• Scala, Nemerle - great hybrids between functional and object oriented.
• Brainfuck - Just for fun.
• Malbolage - if you like the pain. ;)

Answer 8

You don't have Perl in your list, yet it's a very useful and broadly used language. Not sure I'd call it refreshing, but it's worth learning and playing with ;-)

Also, functional programming language such as Ocaml might be fun to learn, it's a different approach to programming.

Answer 9

I would recommend this book: http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html

Answer 10

try fortran, widley spread on the big old boxes

Answer 11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck? It's one of the scariest geekiest languages known to man, if you want yourself a really hard challenge. It doesn't have much use, aside from bragging power; )