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Herk522
post Nov 20 2007, 02:37 PM
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I realize isn't the right website to be asking this but i dont know where else to ask it. what is a good language to learn for creating .exe files. a programming language that isnt for websites. im interested in learning something like that but i have know idea what language does what. C++, perl; all the same to me.
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Dr Z
post Nov 21 2007, 07:56 PM
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C++ is very widely used and may be suitable for many applications, but not all - especially if you are doing any serious database applications. Again, it just depends on the application.
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post Nov 22 2007, 03:55 AM
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Try a Google search with "create windows applications".
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Brian Chandler
post Nov 22 2007, 09:09 AM
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Why would you want to restrict yourself to creating applications for only one operating system?

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C++ is very widely used and may be suitable for many applications, but not all - especially if you are doing any serious database applications.


But I don't see what the language has to do with database applications, since all(?) languages will provide an interface to SQL. Actually Lisp is probably the best language to learn...
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Herk522
post Nov 22 2007, 08:36 PM
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what about perl. what can it do?
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QUOTE(Herk522 @ Nov 23 2007, 10:36 AM) *

what about perl. what can it do?


Fundamentally it "can do" more or less anything, and the same is true of all ("proper", i.e. Turing-comple) programming languages. But "can do" isn't the question to ask - the question should be how efficiently you can turn your ideas into working code. For some cases, if execution time is critical the choice may be more limited.

... but there's a _very_ interesting article about Lisp, here:
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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