Saul Luizaga wrote:
> any suggestions besides Haskell? (I'm checking its website right now).

C#

I can recommend it from both experience and from its pedigree.

You see there is a very clever Dannish chap called Anders Hejlsberg. 
Anders wrote the product that became Turbo Pascal.  Then he designed 
Delphi.  Then he left Borland, joined Microsoft and was the lead 
architect/designer of C# and a fair bit of '.Net'.

I think you will find that C# is great in itself and particularly if you 
like Delphi ideas but not the commercial mess it has become.

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Warp wrote:
> Saul Luizaga <sau### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>> any suggestions besides Haskell? (I'm checking its website right now).
> 
>   Well, if you want to learn what the industry is using, Java and C# are
> probably sure bets.

Yeah, C, C++, C#, Java, VisualBasic, ASP.NET, any of those... Those are 
the ones I tend to see job adverts for, in general.

Some would claim that VisualBasic is the language that took over the 
niche that Delphi used to fill.

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"Saul Luizaga" <sau### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
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> any suggestions besides Haskell? (I'm checking its website right now).

OK, that was tongue in cheek. As others have mentioned, C++, Java, and C#
(+ASP.NET) cover most bases. If you like Delphi, C# won't disappoint, as
it's proof that a curly language can be a sane language.

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Saul Luizaga wrote:
> any suggestions besides Haskell? (I'm checking its website right now).

	Java's been mentioned (you know, for getting a job).

	I'd suggest also learning a scripting language. Python is my addiction.

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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Warp wrote:
>> Saul Luizaga <sau### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>>> any suggestions besides Haskell? (I'm checking its website right now).
>>
>>   Well, if you want to learn what the industry is using, Java and C# are
>> probably sure bets.
>
> Yeah, C, C++, C#, Java, VisualBasic, ASP.NET, any of those... Those are 
> the ones I tend to see job adverts for, in general.

ASP.Net's not a language. It's a web development 'framework'. ASP.net pages 
are written in C# or VB.Net (or any other .net language).
To add to that, php  (often with MySQL) for web development. I'm starting to 
see a couple ads for Ruby, but not very many.

Saul, are you looking to learn a langage for hobby work or professionally?

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Gail schrieb:
> 
> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
>>
>> Yeah, C, C++, C#, Java, VisualBasic, ASP.NET, any of those... Those 
>> are the ones I tend to see job adverts for, in general.
> 
> ASP.Net's not a language. It's a web development 'framework'. ASP.net 
> pages are written in C# or VB.Net (or any other .net language).
> To add to that, php  (often with MySQL) for web development. I'm 
> starting to see a couple ads for Ruby, but not very many.

Ruby as in Ruby, the language, or Ruby as in Ruby on Rails (which is a 
web development framework in which the pages are [obviously] written in 
Ruby)? :)

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Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
>         I'd suggest also learning a scripting language. Python is my addiction.

  I believe the industry is more interested in PHP than in Python. At least
on the web development side of the industry.

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"Manuel Kasten" <kas### [at] gmxde> wrote in message 
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>
>
> Gail schrieb:
>>
>> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>>>
>>> Yeah, C, C++, C#, Java, VisualBasic, ASP.NET, any of those... Those are 
>>> the ones I tend to see job adverts for, in general.
>>
>> ASP.Net's not a language. It's a web development 'framework'. ASP.net 
>> pages are written in C# or VB.Net (or any other .net language).
>> To add to that, php  (often with MySQL) for web development. I'm starting 
>> to see a couple ads for Ruby, but not very many.
>
> Ruby as in Ruby, the language, or Ruby as in Ruby on Rails (which is a web 
> development framework in which the pages are [obviously] written in Ruby)? 
> :)

Well, technically, Rails isn't a language, much like ASP.Net isn't a 
language and I was talking about languages that I see in job ads.

To answer the question, I don't recall if the ads were for Rails or plain 
Ruby. It's more that the language requested caught my eye as I deleted the 
job ad from my mail box.

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Gail wrote:

> To answer the question, I don't recall if the ads were for Rails or 
> plain Ruby. It's more that the language requested caught my eye as I 
> deleted the job ad from my mail box.

You get job ads like that *in your mailbox*?! o_O Next time you get one, 
let m-- oh, wait...

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On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:54:48 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>You get job ads like that *in your mailbox*?! o_O

Jobserve will do that for you.
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     Stephen

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