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Why do beginning programmers (like me) always ask about the next language they should learn instead of asking about the next project to tackle? … Do beginning carpenters ask "I know how to use a hammer ... should I learn how to use a saw or a level next?" …

There are non-language-technical reasons why these aren't so popular, such as there aren't many jobs, frameworks etc., but exclude such things and instead focus on what features should the next generation … systems programming language come with? …

What language, if any, is used in this book? … My school is currently using a terrible book for the algorithms course that I have to take next year and I'd like to convince the department head that Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen is a much, much …

I don't work too often with Java/C# iterators directly but when I do I always wonder what was the reason to design iterators in "next" fashion. … YMMV but anyway -- is there any advantage of next-iterator (as in Java/C#) over this-iterator? Note: this is conceptual question, about the design of the language. …

I would like to know what, why or when it is better to choose a queuing tool and what, why or when it is better to choose database task table? … Read my question as "what are the benefit or what are the arguments to choose a queuing tool solution". My question is not about what language, technology, or project one should take up next. …

So what I wonder about is preaty simple - having in mind next architecture: -> computing unit "A" / gateway --> computing unit "B" same as A \ -> computing unit "C" … I wonder in what language, using what framework it is possible to create such crossplatform TCP proxy/gateway (not ethernet card dependent) that would redirect incoming requests into internal nodes via …

lines of code executed sequentially, and it evolved into including functions which were one of the first levels of abstraction, and then classes and objects were created to abstract it even further; what … is the next level of abstraction? …

But what if I want to find first solution and then maybe ask for the next one later? … When user needs next solution he simply resumes the thread. Sadly not every environment is multi-threaded. What can I do when threads are not available? …

Next I want to create a code generator to convert the parsed java code to XML conforming to the schema I've created. … Finally I want to use an XML style-sheet to transform the XML into another programming language type. …

I am trying to understand better what I can do as a next step instead of creating a huge bash script program. … Is there a paradigm that I need to be thinking about when trying to determine when to use shell scripts vs a "proper" programming language? …

Is Javascript a functional language? I know it has objects & you can do OOP with it also, but is it also a functional language, can it be used in that way? … You know how OOP became/seems like the next evolution in programming, does that mean that 'Functional Programming' is the next evolution(Note: this is NOT a prompt for opinion BUT a prompt for a factual …

A debugger for an imperative language normally allows to Set break points on statements, and execute the program until the next break point is encountered. … What about variables? Since there is no state, I imagine that a debugger will only show the variable bindings for the current scope (?) …

In fact, since the set of values in a enum is fixed and limited, this could be done completely declaratively, assuming there is a means in the language to do so. … What are the reasons for not providing a simple syntax for declaring the next value for a enum? I suggest, in C# or Java this could even be done with a special attribute or annotation, resp. …

In chapter one of "The Pragmatic Programmer" the first learning goal is: Learn at least one new language every year. Different languages solve the same problems in different ways. … is learned- what's next, and why? …

And do what with that fun if I'm not going to do anything worthwhile with it? … A lot of my peers are ready to dive in to learn the "next new thing/language" and it's usually Python, Ruby or PHP (just naming a few popular ones). …