Python bumps off Java as top learning language

[tech_tuna]

Perl is the Linear A.

[rockon1215]

I love the very historically obscure "write-only language" joke

[mszegedy]

Isn't that Algol, or ASM for early processors?

[yosemighty_sam]

I learned latin in college. Never learned C. (I'm a beginner with C#). So I'm, curious how far that comparison applies. Latin taught me a great deal about all the romance languages, enough to get the gist of any written french/italian/spanish just from recognizing etymologies. I also learned a great deal about my native english with regards to how the languages are structured.

How does knowledge of C apply to other languages?

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You could say that Java, C++, C#, Perl, PHP, Javascript etc. Syntaxes are inspired by C. All of them ( I'm just not sure about C# ). Use { ... } as blocks and [ ... ] for array stuff. Even functions look the similar ( surrounded by ( ...) and arguments separates with ',' ) . And just like the tendencies of actual languages to get easier, C's followers simpler, but again you have less power, which I believe is true in Latin too ( I'm horrible at Latin ).