Reply to: What programming language should I learn?

[sasguru]

Update:

Had a change of mind on Haskell (can't teach an old dog new tricks etc) and downloaded Python and bought a Python book (thanks for the recommendation NickFitz!).

Python looks incredibly high level. But I won't start the back-in-my day spiel.

[Stan.goodvibes]

Bump up your SQL skills and then play with Integration Services (DTS). It's great, you get to play with little boxes and theres tons of different ones and you get to join them up with little lines that you drag everywhere and then they all go pretty colours when you run it.

And the kicker is that it pays really well.

[FarmerPalmer]

BBC Basic, 6502 Assembler ? or you could try Z80 assembler

[Sysman]

Now he is ******* mental

Evenly balanced - a chip on both shoulders.

[weemster]

Had a mental picture of Chris Eubank just then.

Now he is ******* mental

[sasguru]

Thkeme

Had a mental picture of Chris Eubank just then.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Thkeme

[Doggy Styles]

Hmmm is Lisp called Scheme now?

Thkeme

[sasguru]

Hmmm is Lisp called Scheme now?

[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

[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.

[sasguru]

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

Bah, learn to lighten up.

[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]

Interesting definition of "fun" you have.

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

[DimPrawn]

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

Interesting definition of "fun" you have.