Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 28th Jul 2004 17:23 UTC
Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
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I just finished writing about Ruby, but failed to mention Delphi. I use Delphi for most of my Win coding, which includes DLL's, NT Services, client/server and Win Apps. I've never used it for Linux dev, but that's there too, and now version 8 does .Net nicely too (sort of do it with 7).
I mention these just to say that even though Delphi is easy to use and learn, it's very scalable as well, generates fast standalone code, is OO (single inheritence) and (if I can use this world) fun.
Scripting languages like Ruby and compiled languages like C/C++, Delphi and so on mix well together too...
I guess the choice of language comes down to your applications target, standalone app, service, web based, platform and so on...
Pretty much any language out there has it's merits and can be used by hobbyists...
Personally, I prefer Objective-C for compiled languages, Ruby for scripting and Delphi on Windows (as Objective-C isn't that native over there)...
Good luck...