From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: f8899,3c634d3864722c74 X-Google-Thread: 10dd18,3c634d3864722c74 X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,3c634d3864722c74 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3c634d3864722c74 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8899,gid10dd18,gidf4fd2,gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: byte8bits@gmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.haskell, comp.lang.python, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Choosing a new language Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:07:12 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <20071228162351.f29a3ce4.coolzone@it.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.222.136.152 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1198908432 7130 127.0.0.1 (29 Dec 2007 06:07:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.222.136.152; posting-account=iw2cHAoAAAA9MYdSZ36kUj7Z6zUGoa2b User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 amdthunder.home.local:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE13) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.haskell:998 comp.lang.python:161068 comp.lang.lisp:76444 comp.lang.ada:19052 Date: 2007-12-28T22:07:12-08:00 List-Id: On Dec 28, 10:23 am, Rico Secada 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