About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Barry <txscope at fastmail.fm> wrote:


> The reason you have heard so many answers is because the question you
> ask can represent so many different questions. If I understand you
> correctly, you want to know about the machines and what they can do.
> Programming languages are only a part of the picture. They are the means
> to communicate with the metal. The low level languages are indeed closer
> to the metal, and require you to deal with memory and such. They require
> more knowledge of networking protocols, and more of lots of things. All
> sophisticated programming requires a lot of math.  Higher level
> languages take you farther and farther from the metal, but let you do
> some rather elaborate things quickly and easily. It all depends on what
> you want.
>
> But forget COBOL -- no jobs, not interesting. And HTML is a markup
> language for displaying documents; it's not a programming language.
>
> It's not a bad idea to think of schooling. CS courses expose you to a
> lot that you'll never get from just  fooling around.



I have been away from the ocean of programing language, but (apart from my
job) I am trying to start learning a new language (for the sake of interest
to know more about the technology), so wanted to understand the the basic
principles keeping in my mind that I have to learn Linux in future, of
course because of its thousand times for security as compared to the Windows
OS. So as in future, I would be turning towards Linux, I guess C would be
good (based on the suggestions of the community members) though I always
understand that there are principle which are to be grasped at first and
these are same irrespective of the language adopted via interest. Possibly,
C++ would not be that easy to start with (without knowing C!!) as it is
merely the 'More C', what guys comment. Perhaps, taking the first priority
as Linux, I hope I would not be having bad luck if I starting with C and
simultaneously look into the basics of Linux too.

If you say for Bash, I don't know but ask if it is an independent language
like C or just supporting scripts for Linux?

Yes, many members suggest me C over Python too, for the beginners but as
someone claims Python is simpler and faster and not that low level as like
C, the mother of many languages!


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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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