Glancing thru Yahoo News, I came across the eWeek article
10 Programming Languages You Should Learn Right Now. (Shame TorgoX doesn't write here anymore: ALL MUST LEARN! LEARN NOW! :)
My favorite piece of lameness in the article is the reason you should learn the number one language, PHP:
Building Web apps from scratch using C or COBOL is going the way of the dinosaur
T. Rex called to say he's insulted.
Good to clear that up
autarch on 2006-09-15T20:57:49
I was about to start this new webapp in C _and_ COBOL. I was going to mostly write it in COBOL for the high level logic, and the use C for the performance-intensive bits.
I am _so_ glad I read that article first!
AJAX is a language now?
DAxelrod on 2006-09-15T22:12:27
My favorite entry was AJAX. Since they already have JavaScript as a separate item, what are they actually suggesting learning? XML? XMLHttpRequest? At least they clarify that it isn't a language.
And I love how many imperative programming languages with Algol-derived syntax they list. For balance, there's some OO. They have country *and* western.
Re:AJAX is a language now?
DAxelrod on 2006-09-15T22:17:54
Ooo! How could I miss this gem?
Java: Hailed by many developers as a "beautiful" language
Re:AJAX is a language now?
chromatic on 2006-10-23T16:04:34
I've often called it "beautiful", but I always include the quotes so everyone knows I'm not serious.
Why you should learn C
bart on 2006-09-15T22:14:36
Learning C is crucial. Once you learn C, making the jump to Java or C# is fairly easy, because a lot of the syntax is common. Also, a lot of C syntax is used in scripting languages
Well OK... but what about C?
This quote is only saying that a lot of languages syntactically look like C, but I don't see anything like a reason to learn C itself.
Re:Why you should learn C
Aristotle on 2006-09-16T00:42:45
As if syntax is all that matters.
Of course, by "number one" you mean...
Alias on 2006-09-16T11:51:27
... that is has a number 1. on it. Note that the article doesn't say anything about it being the best or their top recommendation. It's just the first one displayed.
