Which Programming Language Best For Me...

Hi guys,
My programming skills are php5(very good), asp 3.0(very good), asp.net C#(beginner) and very good CSS, XHTML, JS, MySQL.

i want to learn new programming language for making cross-platform applications(linux, windows or symbian..).. But i can't decide.

i have many options like c, c++ but ruby, pyhton looks good than c.

if i choose ruby or python instead of C, what are main advantages or disadvantages ?

i am waitting your recommendations(or another programming language), thanks.

How about you finish learning C#? Or alternatively you can learn Java, which is quite similar in many respects.

i completely stopped learning or coding ms powered languages. i don't like the .net concenpt and i am tyring to use open-source apps for all of my needs.

shortly i am looking open-source programming languages.

thanks.

Take this box.

Open it.

It's empty!

Yeah, that's how much money you will earn with that attitude.



You learn the most useful languages for the situation or in general, not which ones adhere to your ridiculous standards.

Learn what people will pay you for. java is very similar to C## or vice versa.

Either is so popular that you need at least one of them.

Most of the cool langauges, python, lua, etc. are not popular enough to make a dent in business.

Bah if he doesn't want to embrace .Net then why press the issue more jobs for the rest of us whores ... :-)

Being able to Cross-Platform though is not a bad thing to approach and you sure aren't going to get there with .Net.

I'd say plain old c++ if you master that you'll find many other modern languages are remarkably similar.

Really once you learn proper programming in any language picking up another one should not be that big a deal.

I was thinking of writing that, but didn't want to use that word. Too close to reality. "Consultants to it, only after a proposal"

I agree that once you have a handful of languages, the rest are trivial, learn the syntax and quirks, and go. I have used about 30 professionally, it gets boring even listing them all.

I personally hate C++, it was a gross hack on top of C, which was at best an average langauage. Objective C is a better hack, cleaner without all the const references to const pointer crap.

YMMV

thanks guys for replys.

i am thinking learn python, because

• i am not thinking learn any web programming languages, php is the best choice.
• my target platforms are linux and windows(s a bit of s60)...
• i am using linux, i can't develop .net(mono is not stable)
• python is easy than c, or java.
• i am not thinking develop operating system

with this advantages i am thinking python is best choice for me... isn't it ? (i am thinking python or c++ now)

What's better? A limousine or a bulldozer? It depends on what you want it for. You're beginning to get that picture, but you're still looking here for an answer that only you can provide.

i think you are right...i am going to choose python. thanks.

why dont you just learn all the languages like a normal programmer?

There are some I haven't learned. I really don't grok lisp or prologue. Plus, there are so many, with more constantly being invented, how can you even enumerate 'all'?

While its not clear that OP wants to hear this, I tend to get the most out of languages that are very different. There is not that much learning going from C to C++, but C to Smalltalk is eye opening.

I loved Snobol for the same reason. A great Snobol program was a thing of beauty. Snobol was my third language after Fortran and BAL/ALC (360 assembler) and wow, was it different.

there are two choices

• learn many(not all) languages a bit of
• learn a bit of languages good which is you need.

all programmers have experts only a bit of languages. there is no body who is expert of all languages.