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What is a good programming language to learn after bash scripting?

13th January 2012

My answer to What is a good programming language to learn after bash scripting? on Quora

Python is a good natural progression from bash in my opinion. It has an interactive prompt which supports bash-style exploratory programming, and it has libraries that mean it can be applied to an enormous range of problems—everything from game development to scientific computing to web applications.