Learning A New Programming Language per Year in the Age of AIPeople don’t really learn new programming languages every year anymore thanks to AI, so why do I stick with this activity? Call me old fashioned, but I still like to dive into a new programming language every year, no matter what, and thus here comes yet another update in my lifelong obsession to learn more and more programming languages.
Conway in Borland DelphiYet another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time in good old Borland Delphi 1.0 (which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary!) from 1995, running on Windows 3.1, and as usual you can find the source code on my GitLab account.
Yup, Still Learning a New Programming Language Every YearI gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.
Killer AppsThe D programming language lacked a “killer app” to break through. Another brilliant language suffered from this situation, objectively deserving a much better fate than the one it had; Smalltalk.
Polyglot ConwayMy personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.
PascalFrom 2013 to 2019 I lived in a small town, thirty minutes north of Zürich by train, called Schaffhausen. Where I lived, our neighbors organised every year a gathering, with traditional food and drinks, and where everybody talked to me in Swiss German. Even if I did not always get what was going on, they were so friendly I could not stop smiling.
Still Learning One Language per YearQuick update about my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:
Learning One New Language Every YearHere’s an update of the current status of my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:
A New Programming Language Every YearSomewhere I read that it was a good thing to learn at least one new programming language every year; I think I have kept up that trend since 1992: