After the sucess of my last meditation I feel encouraged to try another one...

Lots of people have encouraged me to learn some more programming languages as a way of improving my skills. I'm looking for some suggestions of languages to learn.

I've downloaded Squeak (Smalltalk) and will have a play with it when I get the chance. What other languages would be worth trying?

I've already had a go with Visual Basic, Pascal, Tcl, Delphi (a teeny bit), FORTRAN (ick!), Logo and COMAL (anyone remember that?).

Update:I should have known, there are still people using COMAL. I remember it from computing at school where I discovered that if you input BBC BASIC the COMAL interpreter could usually convert it into correct COMAL.

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Kevin O'Rourke

In reply to What languages to learn? by kevin_i_orourke

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