Thanks, I pretty proficient in C++ and C since they were the major work languages when I was in college. All in all, I've used about 10 different languages, mostly at an academic level.
And besides, most programmers that start off with higher level languages (Perl, PHP, to some extent even Java) have trouble learning how to be disciplined with strict typing, bounds checking and other such practices that help avoid bugs and security holes, compared to people who start off with C as a foundation. And to be honest, OOP is a concept, not a language construct. You CAN learn how to do OOP in C - C++ and Java just make it a lot easier because they're syntactically designed for it.
Wow. Great, great list. Wish I could rep again; but I can't. Seems Java is not only the highest demand, but it also is the easiest to learn. (Considering there are so many resources to learn from...) I tried C++ and the language just confuses the hell out of me. I've looked at some basic Java coding and some basic C++ coding and Java just seems to make more sense to me. I think Java will be the best start for me since as many of you have said, switching coding languages is what I'm going to end up doing anyway and I want to get a easy starting point. Since structure is pretty similar all throughout. Thanks for all the help guys. AND... What the hell is Fortran? :grin: UPDATE: Googled it. What the hell is that?!
It is built for doing complex math. It's good for scientists to crunch numbers. All our Fortran users for a virtual memory overlay linker my old company wrote (pre-Windows 3.1) were scientists and professors. Matix arithmetic is very easy to do. For instance, it's one of the few languages that allows using arrays in arithmetic expressions.
Check out APL. I remember at my first "real job", that was the programming language that was being used. Coding by heiroglyphics.
Python: - My company makes enterprise software and we use Python for our server code. - Reddit was built with a Python framework. Ruby: - Spiceworks does IT management software.. they're a Rails shop. - Twitter was done with Rails, too. - Gowalla is a Rails shop. If I were to do it all over again, I'd start with Python or Ruby. Code is way more readable imho and you can focus more on what you want your code to do instead of syntax.
