Re: Choosing a new language

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On Dec 28, 10:23 am, Rico Secada <coolz...@it.dk> wrote:

> I am a 35 year old programmer, who program in C/C++, PHP and Bourne
> Shell almost daily.
>
> I am currently going to start focusing on becoming more skilled at a
> few key languages...

Python and Ruby. They are the future of programming and are here and
useful today. Both excellent languages... similar yet different. I use
both for general purpose programming (I do not do Web development
mostly systems programming). You can do things in minutes with them
that would take days in Java or C++. You can write very portable code
in either language (Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac, Solaris, etc.)

Ada is airline/dod blessed. Hardly used elsewhere. Best of luck in
finding skilled, affordable Ada programmers outside of major cities.
The others you mentioned are research projects of math and CS (applied
math professors)... and are not generally applicable to real-world
problems. Interesting projects though.

Best of luck,
Brad