On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 15:17 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Josh Lawrence wrote: > > also, I've noticed that at my local school most of the computer > > science majors use C, so I figure that if I learn C, I can at least > > understand that course material on some level. > > As you might guess from what I've written in this thread, I am > quite interested in programming langauge research. From what I > have seen of this feild, the vast majority of programming > language centered computer science research (ie PhD research > and papers in reviewed journals) is done around Haskell and to > a lesser extent Ocaml. I've also heard (sorry, no sources cos I can't remember) that Haskell et. al. are ivory tower languages more interesting to academicians than for use in 'real' programming. Any comments on that? (questions from a noob) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
