Best Language to Learn?

[|pH|]

Python.

[Lassar]

You can do assembly in FreeBasic.

I have done alot of inline assembly in FreeBasic.

You have the best of both worlds. Basic and assembly.


Lassar

[Aereshaa]

Oh, please, Ada is like PL/I: a good language hiding inside a vast, elephantine hulk.

EDIT:
The problem with basic is that it creates bad habits that, once learned, are hard to kick. I'll admit that other than VB, its speed isn't too bad, but still, it's not as useful as languages like Perl, shell scripting, Python, and C, because it wasn't designed for Unix from the ground up.

[MeTh0Dz|Reb0rn]

LOL THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. What world am I getting the best of with any dialect of BASIC.

I can do inline Assembly in C, am I getting the best of both worlds?

FreeBASIC is crap.

[MrGamma]

If you looking to bend your mind a little... Lua and Applescript are very interesting languages...

Applescript syntax is a good mind bender and keeps you thinking... Lua has some strange rules from what I remember that can help you get out of a rut...

In the end... I learned the most from spending a few months digging around inside a well established C program... just having a good opportunity to see how people go about organizing a large body of work is a good educational experience...

Personally... Nothing beats php... it's the most flexible and personally I think it can be the most challenging due to the many many different ways people program using it...

But... nothing is more fun to program than javascript... everything you do can be reworked quite easily and compacted into code which looks great... and to me that means alot even though it's quite a superficial thing... anyways... jmo...

never used python, java, freebasic, or some of the others mentioned so I'm sure there is much more out there...

[MeTh0Dz|Reb0rn]

How the hell is php the most flexible language?

Are you serious?

Also it's not even close to being the most challenging language, see brainf*ck.

[Aereshaa]

Yeah, I once made a converter for brainf*ck => asm. It's really hard. Here.

[WingedPanther]

brainf*ck is definitely one of the more interesting languages out there. It's almost pure Turing Machine

[|pH|]

Whats this Brainf*ck? LOL sounds interesting.

And Y'know its quite funny how we can't curse but there is a language call ed that...

[MrGamma]

Originally Posted by MeTh0Dz|Reb0rn

How the hell is php the most flexible language?

Are you serious?

Also it's not even close to being the most challenging language, see brainf*ck.

After I wrote that I knew I chose the wrong way to describe it... When I said flexible I was referring to coding styles... rather than it's ability to fit into any situation as an appropriate tool.

Flexibility as in freedom of coding style. You can code procedural or object oriented and based on all of the existing code bases I have worked on I would even say that I could recognize C coders who were using php and fresh from school java coders who had made the move over to the language...

It's flexibility is in the coding styles available to the many different flavors of coding philosophy... and by that is what I also meant by challenging... I wouldn't really say a programming language itself is "challenging" as after a bit they really all seem the same ( but I only have experience with a handful of languages )... challenging is the act of programming itself and when there are many different people doing whatever the hell they want then it can get challenging...

Hope that clears up what I meant... I thought I might take slack for that comment...

But If you'd like me to start getting on about the increase in computing power and the shift to online applications... I might talk about how it's the most versatile in todays business marketplace...