7 Programming Languages On The Rise

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Submission + - 7 Programming Languages On The Rise (infoworld.com)

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snydeq

on Monday October 25, 2010 @09:06AM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner reports on once niche programming languages gaining mind share among enterprise developers for their unique abilities to provide solutions to increasingly common problems. From Python to R to Erlang, each is being increasingly viewed as an essential tool for prototyping on the Web, hacking big data sets, providing quick predictive modeling, powering NoSQL experiments, and unlocking the massive parallelism of today's GPUs."

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