I learned perl.
Now I'm kinda pissed because it's just about dead unless you're
developing websites with Mason.
Looking back. I wish I'd taken the time to learn Java. Love it or
hate it, it's become the defacto standard programming language in
large corporations (one's that aren't all MS'd up with the C# and
the .Net). Just look at how much java is in ARS itself.
Don't get it twisted. Perl is a damn fine language, and it's never
really let me down, it's just that if you chose something like
that ... something that's hot right now, but doesn't have a whole lot
in terms of money behind it (rails comes to mind, as does python) ...
well the problem is that in a few years, you're going to have a VERY
hard time recruiting help that can REALLY come in and take over your
codebase.
Look at what they're teaching in the colleges today. That's what'll
be in the workforce tomorrow. My wake up call for java was when my
younger brother went to college at GA Tech (6 or 7 years ago now).
When I was in school, everyone had to take C / C++ ... they didn't
even teach it anymore. EVERYONE had to learn Java.
I should have went and bought a Java book right then and there, or at
least taken some night courses or something ... but I was too busy
meeting deadlines with my l33t perl + C toolkit, and developing the
heck out of ARS with it.
Now ... I've got an aging codebase, and I'm really really really
tired of having to maintain it all myself, and I can't find anyone to
hire who knows perl for anything other than websites.
Now I've got some Java guys I'm supposed to work with to change it
all over, but I still don't know any java, plus I've got to go back
through all that perl code and explain what it all does.
So yeah, choose wisely, once you're in it, there's no easy way back
out ;-)
-Andy
On Jul 23, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Luttmann, Michael W CTR USA wrote:
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I know this isn't the answer you're looking for, but I'd say learning
ANY programming language is useful. It's not the syntax that matters,
but learning the process of designing a program from start to
finish and
making it work. So choose a language that you might enjoy
learning, as
long as it makes you think like a software designer. And just like
learning a forgeign language, once you've learned one fairly well, the
next ones are much easier.
My first programming language was BASIC (showing my age a bit, there),
then Turbo Pascal, followed by the dBase design languages, some Ada
(at
the Army automation school), SQL, and a smattering of VBScript/MS-
Access
programming, and C++ ... NONE of which I ever used or needed to make a
paycheck. Remedy is my bread and butter now, but the lessons I
learned
in programming the above languages for fun have served me well today.
If I had to settle on one... In the long run, learning DB
programming in
dBase and SQL had the most Remedy "relevance", IMO. It taught me the
most about interacting with and manipulating stored data.
HTH,
Mike L.
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I would like some opinions from all my great friends here on the
ARSlist.
If you had to choose one programming language to learn (for use
with Remedy) which one would you choose?
Thanks in advance.
Andy L. Mayfield
Sr. System Operation Specialist
Alabama Power Company
Office: 8-226-1805
Cell: 288-9140
SoLinc: 19140
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