Re: We are the one percent

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

joao lobato <btnfdp.lobato@gmail.com> writes:
> http://slashdot.org/poll/2417/most-useful-scripting-language-to-learn
>
> Shame about the "LUA" business, though. I expected more from /.

It's not surprising -- Lua is a great language but still it's quite
niche compared to shell-scripts (on a unix system), perl, javascript,
python etc.

>From the point of view of "what's the best language to learn?",
answering based on popularity (as opposed to something like "merit")
is reasonable, because learning a popular language can result in more
opportunities (more existing projects use it, more employers use it,
etc).

OTOH, it's sort of a boring story because of that.... the poll results
just sort of repeat the obvious...

-miles

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