On Sunday 24 August 2008 16:56:50 Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 24 August 2008 13:44, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Sunday 24 August 2008 05:01:20 am Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
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Pick one you like and stick with it.
I don't think this is an ideal strategy. If you choose poorly, you'll be forever hampered by that bad choice. Even if you choose well, there are a lot of programming language concepts and no language incorporates them all (though Lisp _admits_ them all). Furthermore, programming language technology is still improving and, I dare say, there's a long way to go. Exploration of different and new languages is important if you want to be a competent programmer. And a language you like today may come to impede the realization of your ambitions over time.
When Robert Cailliau, one of the two founding fathers of the World Wide Web, was recently asked this question, he said: "nothing with the letter C in the name".
Hmm, does that rule out Visual Basic?
Whatual Whatic?
How about Whitespace?
Huh?
Okay, then Lisp? Fortran?
Lisp is all languages for all people and the only language we've ever needed.
FORTRAN is for pipe-stress freaks and crystalography weenies.
-- kai
Randall Schulz lol
Well I definately like Java hopefully that will not impede me :) I would like to learn some others too, I would really like to contribute to the Linux community so I imagine Java would not fit there. C++ and python keep coming up on searches for linux development. And of course the web development. Looks like I have alot of reading to do! Back to the books... Scarlett -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org