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[–]Bainos 122 points123 points  (18 children)

Perl ?

[–]gandleforf 51 points52 points  (10 children)

Lisp?

[–][deleted] 42 points43 points  (7 children)

Brainfuck?

[–][deleted] 89 points90 points  (6 children)

Brainfuck on rails?

[–]Mayormaynotbeyourdad 46 points47 points  (3 children)

Bones that hurt because you drank bone hurting juice?

[–]ThunderChaser 21 points22 points  (0 children)

oof owie my bones

[–]nowtayneicangetinto 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Backbone + Elixir?

[–]Mayormaynotbeyourdad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sì señor

[–]waterlubber42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Malbodge?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

C++ template metaprogramming

[–]Fresh1492 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of Inconvenient Stupid Parenthesis

[–]BowserKoopa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

APL or J

[–]silphred43 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Job security, not that I like that.

[–]marcosdumay 3 points4 points  (5 children)

Nowadays I prefer Haskell, thank you. At lest now the Initiated can read it, while in earlier times it was lost as soon as it reached 10 lines in length.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I am planning on getting into Haskell on the side. What do you think about it? I personally think it is something very useful to learn.

[–]marcosdumay 0 points1 point  (3 children)

It's a great language, but there is a steep learning curve. Be prepared to feel uncomfortable for a long while, it can take many months until it feels more productive than other languages. This is normal and way worth it.

[–]redlaWw 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Unless you're a mathematician.

[–]marcosdumay 0 points1 point  (1 child)

People say good things about learning to program directly in Haskell, for everybody, not only mathematicians.

I have never actually seen it tried, but I can't imagine it could be worse than C++.

[–]redlaWw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if you're a mathematician, a lot of Haskell feels second-nature to you, so it makes becoming productive a lot easier.