Latin is also good for cool sayings dont forget that "Carpe Noctem!"
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:36 PM, David Hardy <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >
