I have found it both interesting and rewarding to learn a new programming language or major framework on a roughly yearly basis. If forced to self-identify with any single programming language, it ...

Reading programming texts/code and adjusting to new development environments. Later, taking a deeper dive into either Rust, Julia, or Scala languages.a and Python with focus on developing high quality ...

Developers therefore tend to learn it on the job. While JavaScript rules HackerRank's list of top programming languages, Python took out the top place in the Tiobe index for 2018.

For more, take a look at Programming in Scala by the language’s designer, Martin Odersky. See ED Online 18173 at www.electronicdesign.com for my review of the book.

Martin Odersky is the designer of the Scala programming language, a general-purpose statically typed language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. It can be used to build distributed systems and ...