English is the Master Language of the Universe. God speaketh English. All other languages are worthless, except maybe Latin. (The Devil knows Latin.)
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Ruok Blah <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >>
