What's the next language you want to learn?

[bascule]

Lua, maybe............... and damn it Erlang possibly!

 

Both good choices, although Erlang is rather... weird. Lua on the other hand is an awesome language which is very simple and very clean.

[jrodrick4]

hi everyone,

 

I have good knowledge of V.B, C,C++,PHP.

Now, I'm going to learn JAVA (J2ME) for small application creation.

[ryxin]

well, for me i would like to learn java, and adobe photoshop..coz we haven't that yet in our lesson. We are currently studying now in Vb6.

[kaistenolee]

Hi Everyone,

 

I am truly interested to learn Java. I have already finished with C++.

I have just started Java.

 

Java since It has plenty of benefits Platform independence.....and much more..

[bascule]

Lots of people choosing Java. Nothing wrong with that, but the cited benefits aren't particularly unique to Java.

 

For example, Python is likewise platform-independent (and for that matter, can run on top of the Java Virtual Machine using Jython). Python also blows past the rather brittle and frustrating type system found in Java, using a dynamic type system instead. This, combined with higher level OO features like metaclasses and metaprogramming make Python a much easier and more powerful language to program in versus Java. So why not learn Python instead?

[PhDP]

Java's faster, much faster (and with IBM's X10, we might even have a good Java-like language for high performance computing).

 

...and some people prefer static typing, I certainly do (except for small scripts).

 

That being said. there are so many good packages for scientists written in Python...

[bascule]

Java's faster, much faster (and with IBM's X10, we might even have a good Java-like language for high performance computing).

 

...and some people prefer static typing, I certainly do (except for small scripts).

 

As has been discussed ad nauseam both here and on other threads, there are pros and cons to both. My question was specifically addressing the fact that the reasons people are giving here for choosing Java aren't particularly unique to Java (e.g. platform independence), and thanks to the JVM apply equally as well to any JVM language.

[THX-1138]

I'd like to finish up learning Ruby, Python, and Java first. Then.. I don't know, maybe Lua.

[henrythomas]

Well I have completed C and c++ and now I am looking for to learn .net with C#.

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Well I have start to learn the java also i think java is best language i have ever seen before.

[RyanJ]

I'll be going into C# again soon - it's been a long time since I used it and I'm somewhat rusty. I plan on writing a cellular automata exploration program as a tutorial for myself.