What programming language should I learn?

[bogeyman]

With an eye to the future: Python. The online documentation and tutorials allow you to get going very quickly, and it's a fun language. If you fancy getting into web apps, Django is an excellent web applications framework written in Python. For more general-purpose programming tasks, I can recommend O'Reilly's Python Cookbook.

I know you're serious sort of chap, but honestly, Django is abysmal for large projects IMHO. Stupefyingly awful.

[DimPrawn]

Tell you what: you stick to dreaming of becoming a millionaire.
I'll keep learning fun stuff.

Interesting definition of "fun" you have.

[sasguru]

Interesting definition of "fun" you have.

You need to have a brain before you can enjoy intellectual pursuits, I suppose.

[BrilloPad]

You need to have a brain before you can enjoy intellectual pursuits, I suppose.

Makes a change to see sasguru posting insults instead of something creative.

[sasguru]

Makes a change to see sasguru posting insults instead of something creative.

Bah, learn to lighten up.

[BrilloPad]

Bah, learn to lighten up.

errr - who has put more posts on the joke thread than anyone else? I might add it was the second most popular thread in 2008.

[NickFitz]

I know you're serious sort of chap, but honestly, Django is abysmal for large projects IMHO. Stupefyingly awful.

Which version? It's changed quite a bit since the 0.whatever days, primarily through being used for large projects. When I was working at Capital Radio last year we committed quite a few fundamental changes ourselves, based on weak or awkward points we found, or places where it wasn't able to cope well for whatever reason.

In particular it had trouble with the fact that we were looking at using it to manage sites for about fifty local radio stations, each with their own branding and content yet with some stuff shared across several or all sites (e.g. videos), and the problems we encountered along the way led to quite a bit of development on the core structure of the framework, the whole way configurations (both per-site and per-app) are implemented, and some aspects of the general structure of the admin app.

We did have one of the lead Django devs on the team (hi Simon ), which helped in getting stuff committed to the core project quickly

[sasguru]

Hmmm is Lisp called Scheme now?

[Doggy Styles]

Hmmm is Lisp called Scheme now?

Thkeme

[ThomasSoerensen]

Thkeme