Re: Language to Learn

From: Matthieu Villeneuve (matthieu_at_nospam.matthieu-villeneuve.net)
Date: 12/12/03 

Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:04:06 +0100

"Joseph Dionne" <jdionne@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9C3Cb.62757$%h4.31641@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> If you need ease of porting to other hardware and OS platforms, I'd use
> Java. Let someone else port the language, you stay focused on your
> application.

[Note that Jerry specifically limited his question to C and VB...]

Why Java? Several languages are much more powerful than this one,
so I would be interested in arguments for Java...

> If you don't mind the learning curve of porting code to various OSes,
> then I'd recommend c.

Over Java? Could you explain why?

> If you are not too concerned about distribution of your source code,
> Perl is also a good platform. Available and portable to many OSes, and
> just like Java, you will have to have your customers download the
> interpreter.
>
> Visual Basic is just fine if you plan on staying in the M$ world. It is
> a powerful language, and with M$ distribution tools, easy to create
> installers on customer's systems.

Perl and Visual Basic are actually more powerful than many other
languages, but again, there are more powerful languages than those
anyway. Why not simply use the most powerful language you can find? 

--
Matthieu Villeneuve

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