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There's this programming language called Med-PC that works with animal behavior. I'm trying to learn a bit about it, but i can't seem to find any kind of books or material about it.
I've "google it" but all i seem to find are some references about it and a PDF explaining the installing of the program itself and sensors(for the experiments), not actual programming instructions.
I'm looking for some kind of guidance, documents or books, some kind of reference where i can improve and learn about this language, or if it is based on some other language. I just need some reference about it.
So i've resorted to StackOverFlow to see if anybody has worked, knows about it or can point me some links/books about it.
The Med-PC program itself comes with a programming manual that teaches the language. Alternatively, it's based off of the Pascal programming language and it accepts inline pascal code.
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I want to code a program that given a paragraph of text (letters and numbers), it formats it in a custom way, totally different from the initial source.
The thing I'm wondering is which programming language to use to make it easier to code.
Right now I know some Lua, VB, C and a little less of Python and Java, but I wouldn't mind using other monogramming languages if its easy enough to code it.
If it is okay for you to use a non-mainstream language, have a look at Unicon. It is a successor of SNOBOL, the grandfather of all string processing languages.
If you prefer a mainstream language, I would recommend Python.
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I have dealt and used JavaScript and am quite comfortable with it. However I was wondering if I should learn another one. Is there another language out there that used more widely or has more use in the business industry? And could you also recommend a good book for it?
Should you learn a new programming language?
Yes, you surely should.
Which one then?
I don't know. Why don't you pick one related to your expertise? Or something wildly different from what you know.
Which book is the best one?
Go to the library or a book shop. Flip some books through. Most likely, one of those books is good enough. But nothing beats learning to look up API reference on the net.
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What's the most popular and widely used?
You can use the TIOBE Community Index to look up popular programming languages. However, you shouldn't use that as a deciding factor as things may differ locally to you. I've never done C professionally (which is apparently the most "popular" language according to TIOBE), so it all depends on what you want to do.
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Functional Languages - I have heard about them a lot. A related thread Best Functional Language to start with recommends a learner to start with Haskell and subsequently grow his knowledge in the domain.
So I was thinking about starting to learn Haskell. Are there any better choices to start with? If not, Could you help me with some resources from where I can get a deep insight into the world of Haskell. I am a newbie to functional languages, and as such, I have no idea of what these are. Could you help me with some good e-books which is a recommended read for this topic?
This (book) is a good place to start with Haskell: http://learnyouahaskell.com/
Haskell is a good language to start functional programming because it a purely functional language. Later, you can look at multi-paradigm languages like F# ( especially if you are used to .NET)
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The Go language is a new programming language from Google. It is still in an experimental phase and I am having trouble figuring out how stable it is. What sort of projects would you risk using Go for?
As you said, it is still an experimental programming language so I would only use it for experimental projects, for now. The implementation is still young but more importantly the ecosystem around it is also not very mature. In other words you'll probably have a hard time finding frameworks and libraries to help speed up your development and may end up needing to code a lot more than if you had chosen a more mature language.
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Which programming languages have a small number of keywords and/or a limited syntax?
(PS. Please list languages that get real world usage, rather than esoteric languages.)
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Smalltalk-80 only six "keywords" are reserved in Smalltalk: true, false, nil, self, super, and thisContext
I'd say that the most minimalistic language that is still in use today would be, lambda calculus, but I seriously doubt that could be called a programming language. LISP-family, and Python are among the most widely used languages with less instructions. If you are into expert systems CLIPS is also used for research and game dev. and it contains very few instructions (it is based on logic)
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