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3am on Dec 2, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: You must learn JavaScript

"If you asked me 3 years ago what language you should learn I would’ve said Ruby. If you asked me 6 years ago, it was PHP."

You should have concluded that you're not the best person to give advice on what programming language a person should learn. Anyway, the right answer is C++, and the rest will follow.

amackera on Dec 2, 2010 | [–]

Everyone knows the best language is Modula-2...

smokeyj on Dec 3, 2010 | | [–]

Maybe a more useful question would be what language will land me a job.

dschobel on Dec 3, 2010 | [–]

Exactly. He just showed that he has minimal foresight or too low a threshold for what he considers "must learn" languages.

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