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It is good to know something about  Cobol

Lars Roethlisberger <laroethl@studi.unizh.ch> wrote in article
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> Hi !
> 
> >What is the most powerful programming language to learn??
> There is not a single anwser corresponding to that subject.
> 
> But there is the object oriented programming as a very powerfull
> paradigma, provided in languages like C++, Pascal, Java, Smalltalk....
> 
> It is said, that in the next computer geration the logic programming
> like Prolog or Lisp will to come.
> 
> The Visual Programming is a powerful direction, mainly to build User
> Interfaces, but you've got to see, that there is a code generator
> behind, which translates the visual statements and links together. For
> standard use a good purpose, but not for developping stuff.
> 
> And not to forget, old langages such as Cobol are even today still in
> use in mainframes.
> 
> But the languages are often quite the same. F.ex. C++ is the oo of C,
> Java is based on C++ ,......
> C / C++ is the most important language, and that will remain for the
> next 10 years. Everywhere you apply for, C++/C knowleage is demanded.
> 
> The Unix shell programming and script languages such as Perl are
> important as well.
> 
> Depending on wether you wanna learn it just for fun for yoursself, or
> for a programmer job, and which direction of information (networking,
> or standalone application, hostmaintanance, AI,database..)
> 
> ADVICE:
> You have to learn C++, but it's hard to start with. (Most colleges
> start up with pascal, nice simple but unusefull.) So start up with
> JAVA, good selfteaching books, such as "Teach yourself Java in 21
> days, by Laura Lemay and C.L. Perkins, vom sams net, ISBN
> 1-57521-030-4) It shows you the power of the C++ without there
> problems, brings you near to the web based application with retriving
> data from remote servers. Use the develop enviroment Visual Cafe (for
> Java) to get in touch with the visual design of GUI, to build up the
> examples from the book. That way you will learn Object oriented, C
> oriented, Web based and visual programming within 21 days.
> 
> Based on that knowleage, go ahead to a specified direction.
> 
> Me, I'm currently involved in a streaming video project for my
> institute for information technologies of the Uni Zurich and for a
> bank and I need knowleage in Unix programming (shell and C), Visual
> ones, Java and Assembler all the same time. So, I guess you've got to
> see it as well, do not fix on one, learn several!!!
> 
> Yours Lars
> 
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