Bjarne Stroustrup: The 5 Programming Languages You Need to Know | Big Think
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Bjarne Stroustrup is a computer programmer most famous for having designed and implemented the computer programming language C++, one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. His book “The C++ Programming Language” is the most widely read book of its kind and has been translated into at least 19 languages. In addition to his five books, Stroustrup has published hundreds of academic and popular papers. He currently holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University.
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Question: What are the five most important languages that programmers should know?
Bjarne Stroustrup: First of all, nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language. And five is a good number for languages to know reasonably well. And then youโll know a bunch, just because youโre interested because youโve read about them because youโve wrote a couple of little programs like […]. But five isnโt a bad number. Some of them book between three and seven.
Letโs see, well my list is going to be sort of uninteresting because itโs going to be the list of languages that are best known and useful, Iโm afraid. Letโs see, C++, of course; Java; maybe Python for mainline work… And if you know those, you canโt help know sort of a little bit about Ruby and JavaScript, you canโt help knowing C because thatโs what fills out the domain and of course C-Sharp. But again, these languages create a cluster so that if you knew either five of the ones that I said, you would actually know the others. I havenโt cheated with the numbers. I rounded out a design space.
It would be nice beyond that to know something quite weird outside it just to have an experience, pick one of the functional languages, for instance, thatโs good to keep your head spinning a bit when it needs to. I donโt have any favorites in that field. Thereโs enough of them. And, I donโt know, if youโre interested in high-performance numerical computation, you have to look at one of the languages there, but for most people thatโs just esoteric.
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