What programming language should I learn?

[The Lone Gunman]

Couldnt you create a language of your own? See if you can come up with the global solution so no other language is ever needed.
Alternatively try and create the ultimate cross compiler so no matter what language a person works in they can all output the same machine code.

Try and out SKA the SKA come up with your own super killer app.

[sasguru]

http://forums.contractoruk.com/860544-post1.html
http://forums.contractoruk.com/948293-post3.html

1. Offer not accepted - was a take the piss one to check. Market is not at bottom yet.
2. Evening course.



HTH

[MrMark]

Perl. Use it everywhere, and if you get stuck there's always a module someone else has created that you can adapt.

[voodooflux]

LOLCODE or Whitespace.

[Andy2]

Enrol in any evening course with a lot of eye candies
hth

[Bright Spark]

Well if your studying in msc in financial maths, then C++ is obvious choice
a bit like fish and chips .

[sasguru]

Well if your studying in msc in financial maths, then C++ is obvious choice
a bit like fish and chips .

Yes was thinking that. Am reasonably fluent in VBA already.
I hate C++ though, dabbled in it years ago.

[Doggy Styles]

The Lone Gunman: "Couldnt you create a language of your own? See if you can come up with the global solution so no other language is ever needed."

Invent a sort of coders' Esperanto? What would he call it?

[OwlHoot]

Yes was thinking that. Am reasonably fluent in VBA already.
I hate C++ though, dabbled in it years ago.

If you're learning a new computer language for possible future contracting opportunities, it's been pointed out in past discussions here that C++ is a hopeless choice, because you'll be competing against hordes of geeks who have used it commercially for years.

If you're learning just for your own benefit (and why not?), it needn't be a computer language. I've sometimes thought it would be a good idea to learn morse code, or some foreign language like German (I don't like French - too sloppy and guttural since the French Revolution, and they gabble too fast. Italian might not be too bad, although they are gabblers too.)

[VectraMan]

it's been pointed out in past discussions here that C++ is a hopeless choice, because you'll be competing against hordes of geeks who have used it commercially for years.