What's a neat, underrated Programming Language?

[znaps]

Yeah, I said Python first, but Ruby is also a great candidate. Just learn something that _might_ be the language of choice in the future, so you have more to gain from the exercise.

 

[ElDonAntonio]

Be a man: ASSEMBLY.
Now that's fun and pure logic!

 

[DaFinn]

If you want to be different... COBOL

 

[statik213]

Originally posted by: Chebago

Originally posted by: Zontor
A vote for Ruby

I second...

Does ruby have higher order functions?

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: kamper
All this talk has made me wish for a semester where I could just forget about the traditional languages and stretch my brain by learning something completely different :sigh;

Brainfvck is for you my man.

 

[Aves]

Python or Perl.

 

[pookguy88]

ruby

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Originally posted by: Zontor
A vote for Ruby