Most useful programming languages

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Originally posted by Snoop Dogg:
Just so everyone knows C/C++ are not the best languages out there. They are both good, older and more widely used is why people always look to it first. People needed to start looking toward the younger brands such as Delphi, VB, CGI, XML and dozens of others out there.

In fact because everyone uses it I am trying to be different by learning Visual Basic 6 and mainly program with it.

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I don't think that C or C++ has outlived it's usefulness quite yet. There are tradeoffs with those newer languages you mentioned. There could be a lot of overhead that slows it down or it can take up a lot of space (i know VB is like that).

Everyone NEEDS to learn C or C++. I don't feel a programmer can be good without plugging through some C++ code at one point in their life.

iv got to do java next year and im not looking foward to it because weve been told its a right ***** but then again were using Turbo pascal at the moment and thats really bad but just for practice its good

Well I am not a Programmer myself but heard that C/C++ aren't The *BEST* languages maybe good but not the Best.


Also I want to be a programmer but which language should I start out with? I was thinking VB 6 but I am a newbie so whatever works...also do you need to buy books or are the programs like Microsoft VB 6 like WYSIWYG editors?

Remember I am totally new and know nothing about programming.

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Originally posted by Snoop Dogg:
Well I am not a Programmer myself but heard that C/C++ aren't The *BEST* languages maybe good but not the Best.


Also I want to be a programmer but which language should I start out with? I was thinking VB 6 but I am a newbie so whatever works...also do you need to buy books or are the programs like Microsoft VB 6 like WYSIWYG editors?

Remember I am totally new and know nothing about programming.

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Well, there is no such thing as the best language. Every one of them has tradeoffs.

Learning VB is a good idea though. I don't think that you will need to buy any books because there is lots of stuff online about it.

Java and DHTML...Python and C++

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Originally posted by Klashe:

I don't think that C or C++ has outlived it's usefulness quite yet. There are tradeoffs with those newer languages you mentioned. There could be a lot of overhead that slows it down or it can take up a lot of space (i know VB is like that).

Everyone NEEDS to learn C or C++. I don't feel a programmer can be good without plugging through some C++ code at one point in their life.

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Here is one of the pluses of C/C++. It's extremely fast. Is it more difficult to program? Sure is, when compared to some programming languages. If you need something that runs quickly, like in a real-time OS where the amount of time that it takes to run something is of high importance, Java and some other languages just can't cut it. Assembly would be faster run time, but the programming time is horrendous! Especially on an embedded processor (electronic appliances anyone?).

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So they are no longer two, but one. -Matthew 19:6 (NIV)

I'm a strong believer that it's very important to have a variety of "skills". I don't think you can say there is a best language; it all depends on your needs at the time.

My best advice to anyone trying to get their feet wet is to really focus on the fundamentals. And if your looking at pure programming, really try to get a grasp of the object oriented programming concepts.

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Originally posted by Boldy:
I'm a strong believer that it's very important to have a variety of "skills". I don't think you can say there is a best language; it all depends on your needs at the time.

My best advice to anyone trying to get their feet wet is to really focus on the fundamentals. And if your looking at pure programming, really try to get a grasp of the object oriented programming concepts.

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This is probably the single most important thing for all programmers to know and understand. Believe it or not, programming is a lot more than just coding. It took me a while to understand that concept. http://dev.www.sharkyforums.forums.relay.cool/

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So they are no longer two, but one. -Matthew 19:6 (NIV)

The best programming language is psuedocode.

Sure it doesn't compile, sure it doesn't run. But it describes your algorithm better than any language.

the most important tool for a computer scientist isn't a computer, it's a whiteboard.

If you learn C it will be easy to learn other languages like Java and Duh C++. A reall usefull and easy language is Visual Basic. Visual Basic is pretty usefull for applications using access and other MSoft products. After you learn these languages then you can get easyly into perl,cgi-scripting,asp and all those other web scrip/language thang. Offcourse the computer field evolves constantly so this shouldnt last you that long i guess.