Re: What language should I use for a home project?

From: RolandRB (rolandberry_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: 2 Nov 2004 08:13:47 -0800

rolandberry@hotmail.com (RolandRB) wrote in message news:<52970945.0410290501.30fc9bcb@posting.google.com>...
> The last time I wrote applications on my PC at home was about 20 years
> ago. I want to start doing this work again but times have moved on and
> software has changed and now I don't know what software to use. This
> will be a Windows application. What I am going to (try) to write is a
> jpeg fixing program that will have a Windows interface so that a
> person can point the application to a set of jpeg images and it will
> display them if they are OK and alert them if the jpeg is corrupted.
> For those corrupted images it will attempt to find the errors and
> correct them. So obviously the application will need to decode and
> display images from jpegs. Also to be able to read files in byte by
> byte and store sections of the file data in arrays.
>
> What would I use for this sort of application now? It will not be web
> based or distributed. It will just reside on a single PC. I will be
> designing it and writing it myself and it will never grow into an
> application with more than one programmer working on it. I would guess
> Visual Basic but then this seems to have been swept away but Visual
> C++ and C# and .NET . But I want to keep it as simple as possible
> because there will just be me working on it. I want to be able to
> start producing things as quickly as possible so I don't want to learn
> a host of things I will never use. What software should I use for
> this?
>
> Feel free to e-mail me with your suggestions.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Roland

Thanks for your replies. I've been looking around at available
software and it strikes me that Visual C# 2005 Express is the sort of
thing I have been expecting to find as my next all-encompassing
language for developing applications for PCs. I do not see a price for
this anywhere though but I guess it will not be expensive (<100
dollars perhaps)? I know nobody suggested it but it looks at though I
could perhaps interface with other software using it. Would I be right
in thinking that? Also, I know that the most stupid questions are the
ones that never get asked so here goes - if I use this language then I
might want to develop interactive training courses on Unix for it.
Would it be possible to get a Visual C# 2005 Express application (with
whatever extra software is required) to submit commands to a Unix
session and retrieve the results?

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