Ted - just curious. Ur comment re:'a home contractor' - was that in ref
to me? Since, now - @ my day job - I'm an employee and no longer a
consultant...
-K-
On 6/18/2016 8:07 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
Great Friday question! All of them! PostScript, Lua, Perl-Compatible
Regular Expressions, Bourne Shell Script, PowerScript, COBOL, even
FoxPro! It's handy to know a few and dabble in a few more.
You'd expect a home contractor to arrive with a truck full of tools,
not just a hammer. In a pinch you can do a lot with a hammer, but you
wouldn't want a house that was built with nothing else. A professional
who knows one language is a one-trick pony.
ProagProg has their "Learn Seven" books, worth considering:
https://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks
https://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-weeks
https://pragprog.com/book/7web/seven-web-frameworks-in-seven-weeks
... and more (search for "seven")
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
Javascript, HTML5, CSS, in an MVC environment today.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]>
wrote:
Make it C# would be my opinion.
--
Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, at 06:21 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote:
Yeah - I started on an Apple II doing BASIC in 1980. Dabbled in BASIC for
years - then 'fell in love' with TurboPascal.
I'm still doing VFP. But, at my job - they are Pushing me Seriously to
get on-board w/.Net - and either learn VB or C#.
So - I gotta get crackin' and start watching some video tutorials - and
get my head wrapped around a new language...
Regards,
Kurt Wendt
Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100
www.GlobeTax.com
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John
R. Sowden
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 1:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NF] Which Programming Language Should I Learn?
This is interesting. When I started with computers in 1977 (TRS-80 Model
I), I was the target market for computers, software, etc. I am a small
businessperson who invested time and energy into using computers.
I loved it! Now, I am not recognized at all. Either I use canned
software (gnucash, a quicken wanna be), an Office Program (Libre Office),
etc. or I am a "developer" earning a living writing code for others.
Neither apply. I have been writing in dBASE II, dBXL, Foxbase,
FoxPro/DOS (Visual Foxpro 5.0, never worked (not enough memory error with
more than enough memory)). Now I am trying Pure Basic. I wonder what
happened to the rest of us.
John
On 06/17/2016 09:54 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
At 09:18 2016-06-17, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote:
With added Lord Of The Rings comparisions.
http://carlcheo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/which-programming-lang
uage-should-i-learn-first-infographic.png
It made for a break from all the shooting-yourself-in-the-foot
comparisons.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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