Comments by "Cees Timmerman" (@CTimmerman) on "Larry Wall: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know | Big Think" video.

  1. Have you tried using JRuby? It's faster than the standard implementation.
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  2. JS has a nice syntax and features optional semicolons and easy objects, so with transpiling you could use it for anything.
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  3. Java is the Flash of the desktop. Governments recommended its removal because keeping up with the security patches was just too cumbersome.
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  4. Which of the thousands of versions of Lisp has batteries included like Python and JS?
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  5. Insane command line switches, for one. Also something about poor code readability and a long wait for Perl 6.
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  6. My favorite languages: Python, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Wisp (Lisp), Wisp (Clojure), PHP, C#, and Java. Mostly the first two.
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