Subj : Re: Four Programming Questions
To   : comp.programming
From : rossum
Date : Tue Jul 12 2005 12:18 am

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:44:09 -0700, "W. D. Allen Sr."
<ballensr@adelphia.net> wrote:

>Question one: Which language (basic, C++, java, etc) is easiest for learning
>computer programming?

Two possibilities are C# or Java.  Both come with a large standard
library and introduce OOP and the C-style syntax that is quite common.
If you already know a computer language, then C++ is a possibility
since it allows different programming paradigms, though the standard
library is less extensive so you will be more dependant on third party
libraries.

>Question Two: Which language is best for scientific programming?

FORTRAN tends to have the best scientific libraries if you want to do
heavy duty scientific work, multiplying million row matrices etc.

>Question Three: Which language is best for web programming?

For the client end I would again go for C# or Java, depending on the
target audience.

>Question Four: Which language is best for games programming?

Assembler, or something very close to it, C or C++.

>
>Looking forward to answers based on experience.
>
>WDA
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>ballensr@adelphia.net
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