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TIL that the Basque language is a “language isolate” – it seems to have no genetic relation to any other known language. It is thought to be the last surviving remnant of an ancient language family that existed in Western Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages from the East.

by whatilearned January 13, 2022, 11:55 am

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TIL about John Morton-Finney, an American civil rights activist, lawyer, and educator. Before he died in 1998 at the age of 108, he had learned to speak six languages and was believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States

by whatilearned January 9, 2022, 4:51 pm

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Easiest Programming Languages to Learn

by ProgrammerDude December 9, 2021, 4:37 am

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“It’s raining cats and dogs” is an idiom that would make no sense to a non English speaker. What are some idioms from other languages and what do they mean?

by QuestionGuy December 8, 2021, 2:56 pm

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Top 10 Programming Languages to Learn in 2021

by ProgrammerDude December 7, 2021, 10:27 am

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The Console email just went out! This week we interviewed Takashi, the CTO of the Japanese cybersecurity firm Flatt Security! We talked about the open-source Shisho project, a lightweight static analyzer for several programming languages. I thought /r/programming might be interested! :)

by ProgrammerDude December 5, 2021, 4:41 pm

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Online Compiler to compile code in 20 languages.

by ProgrammerDude December 5, 2021, 11:40 am

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TIL that Noah Webster set upon writing ‘An American Dictionary of the English Language’ in 1807. It took him 26 years to write it all himself, including the etymologies, which required that he learn 28 languages. He was plagued by debt to fund the project.

by whatilearned December 4, 2021, 10:36 pm

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GitHub Wrapped: Inspired by Spotify Wrapped, GitHub Trends has a “wrapped” feature that allows users to look back on a year of development and growth. See your repositories and languages sorted by lines of code, your activity grouped by time and day, and more!

by ProgrammerDude December 3, 2021, 9:16 am

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TIL Sicilian and Italian are two different languages, with Sicilian preceding the Italian language

by whatilearned December 1, 2021, 7:29 pm

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On programming languages

by CopyPastaArchive November 27, 2021, 11:29 am

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Top 10 Programming Languages to Learn for Better Job Opportunities in 2022

by ProgrammerDude November 25, 2021, 1:45 pm

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