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Practical lists of languages to know:

List 1: Java, Python, Lua, and C, or C++

List 2: Java, Perl, Ruby, C or C++.

If you know well 3 out of 5 of those languages from each list, it will be easy to find employment anywhere.

Other languages to know for fun: Ada, Lisp, Haskell, Smalltalk....



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