Sean, Michael, Andrew... Any thoughts on Ruby and Python?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:57 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: PHP or .Net? > > On 9/5/07, Ali Majdzadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For about 5 years I am using CF as my main devloping laguage but many > experienced programmers suggested I learn another programming language too > because CF is great but not as popular as PHP or .Net > > Which one do you suggest as the second language I learn? The only thing > I ever used is Coldfusion. > > I don't think you'll actually learn anything new from PHP but you may > find it easier to pick up if you've only done CF. I think PHP is a > *horrible* language but a lot of people think I'm a bit of a language > purist (I've designed a couple of languages and written compilers and > interpreters so I probably have a different view of languages to most > folks :) > > C# / .NET will be a good learning experience in terms of new concepts > and it's fairly marketable. Java would also be a similarly good > learning experience (and is also fairly marketable). > > I generally suggest that folks learn new languages for the concepts > they can teach rather than how marketable a specific language is - the > more languages you know, the easier it is to pick up the marketable > languages - and unusual languages teach you a lot more than mainstream > languages, in terms of techniques (many of which will make you a > better CF programmer!). Consequently, I recommend learning unusual > stuff like Smalltalk, Prolog and Haskell... > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:287822 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
