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What programming language should I learn?

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    #21
    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.
    I am not qualified to give the above advice!

    The original point and click interface by
    Smith and Wesson.

    Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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      #22
      1. Offer not accepted - was a take the piss one to check. Market is not at bottom yet.
      2. Evening course.



      HTH
      Hard Brexit now!
      #prayfornodeal

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        #23
        Perl. Use it everywhere, and if you get stuck there's always a module someone else has created that you can adapt.
        Speaking gibberish on internet talkboards since last Michaelmas. Plus here on Twitter

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          #24
          LOLCODE or Whitespace.
          Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?

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            #25
            Enrol in any evening course with a lot of eye candies
            hth

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              #26
              Well if your studying in msc in financial maths, then C++ is obvious choice
              a bit like fish and chips .

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                #27
                Originally posted by Bright Spark View Post
                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.
                Hard Brexit now!
                #prayfornodeal

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                  #28
                  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?

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                    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.)
                    Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                      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.
                      Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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