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5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know - Deque - 05-15-2013

5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know

Larry Wall, the creator of Perl answers the question. Very interesting, imho. Watch it.

His answer in short: JavaScript, Java, Haskell, C and (of course) Perl

RE: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know - 3r3bus - 05-15-2013

I was quite sure that this guy was going to jump out of my screen and molest me. None the less, good video and moustache...

RE: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know - Psycho_Coder - 08-29-2013

I know only three C, Java and JScript. But still need to get depth in this. I wonder why C++ is not included it is such a powerful language. Codecs, Games, applications, plugins etc etc are developed with C++. It should have been included. Haskell, I am a beginner and I read the book you suggested.

RE: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know - invisal - 08-30-2013

(08-29-2013, 07:24 PM)Psycho_Coder Wrote: I know only three C, Java and JScript. But still need to get depth in this.
I wonder why C++ is not included it is such a powerful language. Codecs,
Games, applications, plugins etc etc are developed with C++. It should
have been included. Haskell, I am a beginner and I read the book
you suggested.

It is his opinion on what language everyone should know (not based on powerful
language). All language is almost equally powerful because what you can do
in one language can be done in another language.

I agree that everyone should know "JavaScript". I believe "Web application" is
a future. Most desktop application now are slowly replaced by "web application".
World would be more wonderful when almost every program is accessed via
a web browser. (you don't need to install software, and software works
across platform).

RE: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know - ArkPhaze - 09-02-2013

I would agree with all of those with the exception of Perl. lol, Perl gets such a mocking. It's okay as a language, but some things I don't quite like about it. Javascript is probably one of the first web languages I would suggest learning though. PHP only because it's so common, but Javascript is awesome.

If you are a Windows only person, then I would say it's a choice between something like C# and Java. Otherwise you can use mono, but they are virtually hardly any different when it comes to Windows.

invisial Wrote:Most desktop application now are slowly replaced by "web application".

No :S. Where'd you get that from? Try running something like VisualStudio in a web based application. Could you imagine the required resources and server load? And I doubt it would have the security level that a desktop application would have in order to interact with your system at a core level.

invisial Wrote:World would be more wonderful when almost every program is accessed via
a web browser.

Why? What would be the advantages there? What about user settings and everything? Would you want to store something like your registry online?

"and software works across platform" <-- However this is not guaranteed just because it can run in your web browser.

RE: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know - invisal - 09-03-2013

(09-02-2013, 11:00 PM)ArkPhaze Wrote: No :S. Where'd you get that from? Try running something like VisualStudio
in a web based application. Could you imagine the required resources and
server load? And I doubt it would have the security level that a desktop
application would have in order to interact with your system at a core level.

Well, we have Google Doc that slowly replace Office. There is draw.io for replacing Visio. We have
Pixlr that is trying to build a feature-rich photo manipulation (Photoshop). We have Salesforce for
Contact Management System, we have Trello for collaboration tool. There are a lot of
good web application now that is not available in desktop application such as Google
Analytic, Google Translator, etc...

(09-02-2013, 11:00 PM)ArkPhaze Wrote: Why? What would be the advantages there? What about user settings and everything?
Would you want to store something like your registry online?

Well, I found out that having all setting storing online is a big advantage, you can simply
replace your computer to new one, and you don't need to re-install new software
and re-setting the same thing again. HTML5 now have local storage that allows
web application to cache resource-extensive. You don't need to load the whole
Visual Studio size application. They can lazy-load what it needs and store it
at local storage.

(09-02-2013, 11:00 PM)ArkPhaze Wrote: "and software works across platform" <-- However this is not guaranteed just because
it can run in your web browser.

But better than other language that claim to run across platform. There are a lot of
Javascript function that works on all platform and there are a lot of Javascript
framework that ensure that everything you did will work across different
platform (for example: jQuery). Of course, you need to test at different platform
to ensure it will work, but the chance is high.