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Learning A New Programming Language per Year in the Age of AI

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

People 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 Delphi

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Yet 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 Year

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

I gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.

Killer Apps

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The 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 Conway

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0100

My personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.

Pascal

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0100

From 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 Year

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0200

Quick update about my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:

Learning One New Language Every Year

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Here’s an update of the current status of my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:

A New Programming Language Every Year

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0200

Somewhere 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: