Oh my. I must learn Sanskrit now. A handy base for all the Indo-European languages. Maybe some Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, too. One never knows when THAT will come in handy. Cheers!
Old Farmer Dave On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Balu Raman <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > God speaketh English > My God speaketh Sanskrit :-) > - balu > > On 2/12/09, 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 > >>> > >>> > > >
