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Veteran developer lists his programming language repertoire

Original: I'm an 👴 so I know C & Perl at an expert level. I'm solid in # Scheme , # Elisp , # Java , and # Python (but slow b/c I

A longtime free software developer and lawyer at the Software Freedom Conservancy shared a rundown of his programming skills: expert-level C and Perl, solid Scheme, Elisp, Java and Python, ongoing Rust study, and past experience with Ruby, Haskell and Tcl. The post invites reflection on how programmers accumulate languages over decades and keep adapting to newer ones.

Why now: Devs enjoy comparing language résumés and discussing which languages define different generations of programmers.

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• I'm an 👴 so I know C & Perl at an expert level. I'm solid in # Scheme , # Elisp , # Java , and # Python (but slow b/c I must look up details on standard APIs, etc.). I'm learning # Rust , knew # Ruby once upon a time, & dabbled in # Haskell . I also know # Tcl (of all things!).… · bkuhn@copyleft.org · 20

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