What is a nice programming language to learn?

[vern]

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Lets get real here, it may be the inspiration and help in minor details for real world applications, but the engineering required to do a project like that isn't going to come from Second Life. This game has truly become your second life if you think that Second Life is going to be used for practical real world applications without further work on such a project. "Second Life: A Virtual Universe for Real Engineering” is the kind of headline I read on a magazine, but never hear from again akin to the likes of headlines "Mars by 2000". We've had this Second Life discussion before where you've insisted that second life is more than a virtual world. Come back to me when they've actually made something tangible with the game such as real buildings, a real economy that can be translated to dollar amounts (the WoW gold market that is disallowed is way bigger than the money exchaged in Second Life), real vehicles.

The fact is, programming from the game (we are talking about programming here right?) is not going to amount to any kind of practical use without studying another programming language. Is Second Life scripting going to help with those other languages? Can I as a new user study it, master it, and then easily transition to Python? to any language? ... or is it just a waste of my time which can be used in learning and putting to use in real world PRACTICAL applications that deal with programming? How many mass transit systems have you made today that is going to be built in real life? This past week I used Python to automate parsing of gigabytes of data for in-house analysis. Where is practical? Practical is when you can use a skill to do a job you like doing. You may make money scripting in the game ... but that kind of job is not practical for millions of people who wish to program. This is about PROGRAMMING, don't digress from it with your second life ... Second Life ... it has no place here.

[rodsky]

Agreed. But allow me just one parting link...

Virtual worlds venue for real R&D | Australian IT

Will now stop posting about LSL and Mono.

-RODION

[vern]

Like I have said before ... when I see it.

Mono is certainly on topic. Mono/C# is huge.

[bcasabee]

About LSL, I diasgree (not totally though) that this can be a good way to learn the art and science of programming. But this is very much useful for scientists and engineers to test their ideas on a simulated environment without them having advance knowledge in programming. Ex, it would be impractical for physicists to spend years figuring out how to code a simulation program when all he wants to know is to see how the big-bang could have occured. But if you want to earn in programming, its not the way to go.

[rodsky]

About LSL, I diasgree (not totally though) that this can be a good way to learn the art and science of programming. But this is very much useful for scientists and engineers to test their ideas on a simulated environment without them having advance knowledge in programming.

Agreed. Right now, the applications for it fill a very narrow niche and perhaps the syntax and structure is not as elegant or shall we say "intuitive" than the other more "industry-specific" hardcore languages out there. But your ending statement was right on the money.

-RODION

[psyd_1]

unsa nga klase sa COBOL kadto DOS base, kana mo run sa PC connected to mainframe, same sa UC/CCC sa una?

im not sure but i think its those DOS-based ones..

[mrrob2001]

Same concepts sa Java

Same concept sa Java but Java cannot manipulate hardwares, C# can. Java is just a virtual machine unlike C#, it can manipulate hardwares in your PC..

[bcasabee]

^^^ You do not know what your talking about. Please dig deeper.

[technowar]

Start sa basic which is C. And learn everything you want to learn.

[mcxiand]

if your unto web, try learning Ruby on Rails, its cool...