Re: new programmer wondering what to learn

["Samuel A. Mize" <smize@magellan.bgm.link.com>]

Peter Hermann wrote:
> 
> [ Article crossposted from comp.lang.misc ]
> [ Author was John LAMBORN ]
> [ Posted on Fri, 23 May 1997 07:41:05 GMT ]
> 
> I am a new programmer (just starting a few months ago).
> I am also a computer science major.
> I have a couple of questions :
> 1. which languages would be best for general real world use (other than         c++)?

Virtually any language other than C++  :-)

> 2. is it worth my while to learn ada?

Very much.  If you never use it in your work, what you learn
about programming while learning Ada will help you.  (I'm
assuming you have a decent teacher, or use one of the online
tutorials at http://www.adahome.com).

> 3. which languages would be best to learn for database building?

This is done in SQL or a similar special-purpose query language.
These are generally interfaced to a programming language; Ada
has some of these.  I don't know what's most common in the DB world.

I believe I recently saw a comment that some major vendor (Oracle?)
was using a query language that was based on Ada.

> 4. which languages would be best for graphical application (video game          programming)?

Best is probably Ada, with its built-in multitasking and other
real-time support features.

Most common is probably C, or C compiled with a C++ compiler
(genuine C++ -- code that depends on the "++" features -- is
much rarer than C compiled as C++).

> thank you ahead of time
> 
> please reply by email if you would
> 
> jonathan lamborn
> 
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