Taka Kojima wrote:
it's not necessarily the language that makes a developer, it's the conceptual
understanding of everything else, design patterns, syntax, best practices,
I would agree with that.
What 2nd language to choose depends upon what you aim to do...
I program in C++ for my own desktop applications because of it's raw power.
Then I learnt AS3 because of some work that came along. The C++ gave me
a head start with AS3.
After using AS3 I was able to go back and apply those ideas, especially
event listeners, to my C++. That really helped my C++.
So the concepts travel, as long as the languages are similar.
My own journey was Electronics to Machine Code to Assembler to C to C++
to AS3.
AS3 is great for producing graphics quickly.
C++ is brilliant for power and Visual Studio is an amazing IDE, but it
takes (me) forever to get anywhere - though what I produce is very FAST.
C# would be useful for Silverlight.
Ruby on Rails gets good reports, but I don't know anything about it.
JavaScript seems to be on the up.
So what to choose comes down to what you are aiming to do with it.
Choosing a language with similar syntax makes a lot of sense.
Most of the software and operating systems we use were probably written
with C++.
C++ is at the centre as far as I am concerned, even though Microsoft
treat it as second class compared to C#.
However I really like AS3, especially because of what Papervision3D
brings to the language.
John
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