Hello Monks,

I start learning programming for the first-time using awk and Perl. I am not a professional programmer or have any official computer science education. I consider my skill level as “early-intermediate” level Perl programmer. When I read documentation, I understand most if not all without asking anyone. I have similar level of competence in Python and R, and beginner level knowledge of C language (still working on it). I can use Perl, Python and R in my job; I am a biologist and do mostly my own data analysis. I can write >=95% of scripts I would need myself without asking any help. In other words, programming is a hobby for me, and I have a lot of fun when I write in Perl. However, I do not have as much fun when I write in other programming languages I mentioned above (C comes second so far). I am not sure why? Maybe Perl is more expressive for me.

Since programming is a hobby for me and forces me to think problems differently, I would like to learn additional programming languages, but I want them to be as fun as Perl. I was wondering if there are other languages there that might be as much fun as Perl. I would appreciate recommendations, especially it complements my Perl knowledge. I hope that my question is reasonable enough to get some suggestions. Much appreciated.

In reply to Recommendations for fun programming languages ? by rnaeye

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