What programming languages should everyone learn? | Charles Hoskinson and Lex Fridman

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Charles Hoskinson is the founder of Cardano, co-founder of Ethereum, a mathematician, and a farmer.

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[advaithbala]

Everyone should learn assembly to learn the fear of God and develop carnal fight or flight instincts necessary for survival in the world of memory management.

[bideshbanerjee]

"It's not about falling in love with the language it's about falling in love with computing and interaction with the computers". ❤️❤️

[jimbarino]

I took one class in Lisp back in college, around 1990. Haven't really touched it since. But I think I learned more from using that language than enything before or since. The fact that a "normal" thing to do was to write a program that rewrites itself as it runs blew my mind...

[HelloThere-xsss]

Anyone else bothered that the code in the thumbnail wasnt indented and didn't even look like it made sense? No? Just me? Ok.

[bocckoka]

'some connection to understandable things'

that hit hard, man

[_diversable_]

i'm surprised Julia lang wasn't mentioned, especially in the context of Lisp-style & academic friendly languages, but Julia is actually easy to write (and read), has the same functional bent as Haskell (if you choose to write it that way), plus it can run as fast as C / Rust if you use Julia's gradual type system

[feralaca]

I learned some HASKELL in my programming paradigms course many years ago. At the time, I didn't get the benefit and learned just enough to pass the course. We also learned Smalltalk and Prolog. I ended up using JS everyday, not a great language but it pays the bills. This got me interested in Scala, I will probably give it a try.

[kohlrabenschwanz]

i would say that i REALLY learned programming with LISP.... my first courses where in Python and Java. But for the basic concepts LISP makes a lot of sense

[JRis]

Great conversation. Seems ill have to venture into Scala after my adventure into Python. Been quite the journey learning this stuff on my free time. Might need to find a mentor at some point or something.

[andyashworth]

Charles has the fairly rare combination of astronomical intelligence levels, while also being a fantastic communicator

[gullijons]

Scala is one of the languages we've been hearing about for almost two decades, how they'll replace all the old languages. How no one uses these old things any more but C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, and Javascript still dominate almost everything and languages like Scala, Haskell, Julia, and Ruby - to name just a few, have their few moments in the spotlight only then to pretty much fade into some niche.

[asdqwe]

Having previously worked with Scala for a while, I can say that the fact that it's both functional and oo is not always a good thing. Everyone writes in a different style and it's very hard to find a consensus about best practices. Love parts of the language, but it's chaos in large organizations

[nsfeliz]

my favorite programming language is soldering iron.😄 real men HARD WIRE thier functions.

[IamEchelon]

You all need to go look at Scala 3 immediately. I had no idea how well designed this language was until he suggested it. Honestly blown away.

[lmao]

My uni used scala for the intro to programming course, it was great

[lashropa]

1:17 I'm glad you XKCD'd so I didn't have to. Respect.

[josephjoestar]

I like C++ a lot but having to use a lot of Python (PySpark) at work to use apache spark with, I was wondering if C++ has any place in the world of data engineering and big data?

[johnnytoobad]

COBOL & Fortran (and some BAL and DEC MACRO-11) was all you needed to know when I started out. If you were "an expert" on DEC architecture and DEC supported languages you could write your own ticket..for a few years. Now I just use Python (on Linux) but I'm retired anyway.

[sunil.b]

First time I found useful someone given advice on programming language should learn.
Thanks

[rbrickproductions]

I started in high school teaching myself python, c#, Java & Go. Still use them all to this day. Scala & Haskell are really great languages and I definitely need to do more with them. Learning Rust now, but my bias is clearly with Go haha