The last time I was on a language learning spree was back at [[http://www.iitk.ac.in|IIT Kanpur]]. We had this course in our 3rd year, called Programming Languages, Tools and Techniques. It was like a crash course whirl-wind tour of a myriad of, well, programming languages, tools and techniques — Perl scripting, CGI, shell scripting, decoding ELF files, latex etc etc.
Somehow things worked themselves in such a way that this quarter I got to lay my hands on two entirely new and really funky languages — [[http://python.org|Python]] and [[http://rubycentral.com|Ruby]]. Though Python is not as funky as Ruby, I really love it. Ruby is darn cool! And I think I will have occasion to visit our old friend Perl.
I found some great links on scripting languages:
* [[http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/scripting.html|John Ousterhout on Scripting Languages]]
* [[http://www.ifi.uio.no/in228/lecsplit/|Notes on problem solving using high level scripting languages by Hans Petter Langtangen]]