I think PHP would be a good choice, usual learning curve 3 months for programmers, and a bit more for non programmers. Good clean language structures. Opeion of using procedural or object oriented sinthax. Builds on your x web html js experience, and works as a shellscript aswell (cli/cgi/module) . Platform indipendent (sort of) available for winxx, Linux, unixes, bsd, i think even on macosx (freebsd based)
Cheers Szemir Ps.: I guess i did not say a lot new here :-) On August 16, 2004 14:15, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > Hi All, > > Was contemplating trying to learn a programming language and Jeff's offer > of books kind of inspired a debate within...what language should I learn? > > I am thinking of something related to web development. Keep in mind I am > no programmer but I have worked a bit with SQL, JavaScript and HTML. I > would eventually like to play with Java but I think that is a far way off > yet. I would like something that ties into databases well, is fairly easy > to learn and develop for and has a good grounding in the industry. If it > is open source so much the better. > > I have talked to a few people and they say perl or python or something > similar is good. But asking someone the best programming language is > liking asking them what the best beer is. > > Any non-biased or "good case for" arguments or ideas anyone would care to > share? You can contact me off list as well at: > cameron dot nikitiuk at shaw dot ca > > Cameron > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
