Choices, choices, choices... Why not all of the above (or below in the case of this email)? I was thinking of starting with C++ because it is my favorite of all the languages that I currently know and moving on to perl. After that maybe lojban to make Dave happy.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Dan Coutu <[email protected]> wrote: > Ruok, what language to focus on depends on what you want to do. > > If you want to be able to customize basic Linux things then C and C++ are > probably the best choices. > > If you want to be able to do IT automation then learn shell scripting, > particularly bash, and Perl. > > If you need to be able to transform data then Perl and XSLT are valuable. > > If you plan to deal with real databases (not junk like Access) then SQL is > required. > > If you want to make web applications then you have many choices. Perl, PHP, > Python, Ruby on Rails are all effective languages for this. > > If you want to write things that make Dave happy then English is a good > choice. :-) > > So, what do you want to do? > > Dan > >
