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Well, the only thing i've had happen to me is this:
AAfter a while of programming (few weeks or so), the programs that once used to compile on my computer wouldnt anymore... In the end, i found out that for some reason, the compiler warnings were turned on..... I never turned them on :-/
But, other than that, i have seen no bugs. But, i really dont play with the settings and anything, so it would be less of a chance that i'd come accross a bug.
I do not know much about delphi...I've never really tinkered in it.
Visual Basic has it's uses. The more you know about it the more you'll realize that most of what you read on the boards is complete and utter crap written by people who did not take the time to learn vb. It is all about rapid app development, and for anything that vb does not do for you fast enough you can simply write a com component or dll for the vb to use..... You also have the choice of compiling to p-code or straight up native code.
I'd rather smack myself in the head with a board than solve all my problems with machine language or assembly. Doing optimizations is great, or other specialized jobs....but that is about it.
c and c++ developers will always have jobs as long as they have skills (soft and tech).
Perl is great and can be used for alot of things....it also allows you to put together apps very quickly for windows and nix. Most of the people I see using it are admins or web related. Alot of software test automation people use perl too.
I dunno who told you java is taking off...but I don't see it going any farther than it is now. It's been out for years and even sun has trouble standing behind it. It is a decent little language to work with, but I'd only use it for some specific purposes (like e-commerce application server development for nix). User Interface wise it just sucks. I'd rather use c#.
PERL is a beautiful language that can work with a number of platforms. I thought it only did web apps at first, but no, it encompasses a wide variety of apps. :DQuote:
Perl is great and can be used for alot of things....it also allows you to put together apps very quickly for windows and nix. Most of the people I see using it are admins or web related. Alot of software test automation people use perl too.
Well, you know, E-Commerce is going to take off in the next few years... That means that JAVA will to, because, as you said, its good for E-Commerce... Yeah, the UI sucks... Now i remember who said JAVA will be a big hit... It was my college teacher... She was asking all the people in the IT courses who they were, and what languages they know... One guy said "I only know JAVA and HTML" and she said "ONLY JAVA??? Java will be a big thing soon..." So, i guess she has done some research on JAVA, and maybe she see's something in JAVA that all of us programmers dont, or maybe not... I dunno, i guess its up to the programmer to decide if JAVA is worthwile to learn or not.
I've been using Delphi since Delphi 5, used Pascal for many years before, and I love it, I think it still is the best RAD tool in the market, even though C# and the whole .NET framework is very nice, but still for applications there's nothing like Delphi. I think that you should learn as many languages as you can (or at least 2) so you can really use the one you need, and not have to do the job in the wrong language because you don't know another one, for example at work sometimes I decide to just use a "DOS batch file" to do the job, that's the easiest and most efficient way to do it, directly in DOS, the same applies for when you need to write a web page, etc... learn to use the right tool
Why go for PERL when there's PHP?Quote:
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PERL is a beautiful language that can work with a number of platforms. I thought it only did web apps at first, but no, it encompasses a wide variety of apps.
*grins*
php is good... I refuse to read all those long (some unformatted) posts :P