What programming langage should I learn ?

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Yes to all 3.

Hi all !

Thanks klausnrooster for your point of view and your links And thanks to the recent others as well (Recycler, scubasteve, Ichinin, Birbal, bryce13950, Titangeek...)

This is the kind of topic I really enjoy reading, as posters interact with each others.

As I've explained on the first page (my background & my goals), I will plan several projects :

one short term (2-3 months time) with JavaScript and PHP (as it is my daily routine as a webmaster, but I need to gain mastering of), plus XML/XSLT
one medium term (4-5 months) Python|Ruby, Pascal|Delphi (to write softwares that can handle http tasks on a client-side storage way)
one long term (from a year to a life span - well, what remains for mine anyway -) : C|C++, Forth, ASM (to understand as much as possible how it works !)

Also : Lisp, Fortran, Ada, Cobol ... to understand how they differ and to try to have a grasp of the wide scope of computer programming, just as speaking many languages can help someone in its vision of life, himself and the world

Anything in my 3 terms that seems inacurrate/inapropriate to you ?

Thanks for debating/contributing !

That quote is lau's by the way. To the OP, "Learn 2 or more languages" is more useful advice than "learn language xyz". Nothing at all wrong with your list! I still can not post links, see
acheteeteepee slash slash concatenative dot org slash wiki slash view slash Concatenative language
for the Fundamentals, .. idioms, and ... interesting properties links on that page. Nevermind selling the concat langs, these are interesting reading for perspective on any lang.

http://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Progr ... 557&sr=1-1

I'm reading this, it's good.

C++ is the best in my opinion, since it makes video games.

Huh. Isn't Mind.Forth written in forth code?
Anyways, I'd go with learning some C programming basics, and then Java basics. After that, any language is fair game.

I've studied Visual Basic (5.0 days) C, C++, C#, and Atmel assembly language (the Arduino system is based on an Atmel chip) and played with SCHEME, Python, Perl, PHP, Javascript, and a few others. From my perspective Perl is definitely a no-no for a first language frankly the prettiest Perl code in the world would beat out the nastiest example from the OCCC. SCHEME is just plain fun though I don't think I'd ever write anything useful in it. PHP is very functional and gets things done it has it's own beauty. Javascript well it's a scripting language pure and simple you'll never do anything other than web-pages in it but if you do web work no matter what you'll end up using it or one of it's front ends. C, C++ are your race cars of the programming world they're incredibly powerful and fast but you darned well better know what you're doing.

C# (I've used it mainly in an ASP.NET perspective) is a wonderful language for rapid development but gives you nearly no access to what is under the hood in a way this is a good thing it makes you focus on code not details as someone that tends to get stuck in details it has greatly increased my understanding of the actual act of programming. Then we get to Python it's a lot like C# in that it has almost everything you need available to you but if you really want to you can still get pretty darned close to the nitty gritty details and actually make things happen (possibly those things that "shouldn't" happen). Each language has it's use but unless you're coding business applications I would stay away from C#.

I suggest starting with Python and continuing with C++

The programming requirements in my program are basic, java, and C++.

For quick and dirty scripts you can't beat PERL. It is one of the wittiest programming languages ever invented.

ruveyn

Hello Folks,

I've just stumbled upon this slideshare document and found it quiet interesting :

http://www.slideshare.net/mattangriffel ... lf-to-code

Basically, it recommends Ruby as to achieve a prototype quickly, when you're an entrepreneur.
I like the "DIY" approach of the learning process (nothing spectacular though).

Regards,