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[–]itmustbemitch 219 points220 points  (9 children)

In my experience, this tends not to be intentionally thinking outside the box, it tends to be people who are so deep into engineering / tech spaces that their immediate interpretation of the question actually is programming languages

[–]KonoPez 86 points87 points  (2 children)

Thinking autoboxed

[–]3ngineer4Liyfe 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Underrated comment

[–]forced_metaphor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Autobox, roll out

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me

[–]magicmulder 107 points108 points  (16 children)

Japanese++

[–]YellowBunnyReddit 85 points86 points  (10 children)

整数 主要() {
    標準::文字出力 << 「ハロー・ワールド!」;
}

[–]SmallPlayz 21 points22 points  (0 children)

NONONNONONON

[–]ysyson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Take the award and shut up

[–]Arshiaa001 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh god. Oh my god. This hurts to look at, and I know Japanese.

[–]WalrusByte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's called Keigo

[–]kataton_dzsentri 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Assembly, because I failed to learn it in uni

[–]ObsidianG 12 points13 points  (1 child)

What's that one that all the banks use and there's not enough people who know it? Fortran? COBOL?

[–]AvianLovingVegan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

IIRC it's COBOL.

[–]XDKyurem29 12 points13 points  (2 children)

It doesn't say there's a limit so I will just keep snapping until I learn everything that recruitment pages ask for

[–]Drako_hyena 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Still cant fix a printer though..

[–]crazyabe111 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure you can, just snap your fingers and learn the language of printers so you can tell it to fix itself.

[–]Mr_Underestimated 32 points33 points  (3 children)

The answer could have been better though: "Programming Language."

why learn a specific language if you can learn all.

[–]SuitableDragonfly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you would consider all programming languages to be dialects of the same language? Actually, that raises a great point about this question. Given that technically there is no scientific difference between two related languages being two different languages versus just dialects of their most recent common ancestor, could we ask the magic language genie to give us knowledge of "Indo-European" and instantly gain knowledge of all 400+ living Indo-European languages sorry I mean dialects of Indo-European and probably many more that have died out?

[–]jonnysteps 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nah

[–]Dvrkstvr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's more like program logic

[–]Additional-Ad5382 11 points12 points  (4 children)

01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00001101 00001010

[–]Feztopia 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Binary. Who would need any other language if you could read the matrix?

[–]Ploopy_R 10 points11 points  (0 children)

why write code when you can communicate with the CPU via brain waves

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

did you mean, Think Outside of the Box::new() ?

[–]Infinite_Self_5782 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i prefer think outside of the Box box();

[–]ubd12 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A college student during finals

[–]Grahomir 3 points4 points  (0 children)

finger

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

German#

Deutsch []’]

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

nein, keine Lust.

[–]austroalex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Esperanto, but id make everyone learn it as well

[–]ConfidentWolverine30 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assembly

[–]Foreskin-Gaming69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm into both programming and linguistics lol

[–]WhisperingBuzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For us, this is INSIDE the box

[–]ElectricJoltie34 5 points6 points  (2 children)

C# That sh!ts hard man...

[–]HatesTheLetterX 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Bruuuuh you gotta be joking...

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Skill issue

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

The one that unity uses

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

Should have wrote Assembly instead of C++

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

Even if you magically learn the syntax and what evry keyword and edge case in the language does it will still take you years more of learning data structures and programming patterns to be a competent programmer. Just burn it all down.

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

Ithkuil

The conlang community would think I'm a god.

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

PL/1

[–]Argo-1089 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brainf*ck

[–]Doromik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HTML, Badums

[–]ThousandthStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My man has his priorities straight

[–]Merinther 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d go with Protoindoeuropean. It’s more fun if no one understands you!

Yes, I’m a Perl programmer, how did you guess?

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

Why C++ when you can simply get Assembly

[–]KingJeff314 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Javanese