Re: C Perl and every employer wants .net and asp

I don't have the same dilemma but I think I will soon. I'm 15 and learning Perl, and I love Perl, but from what angel and others have said, should I be focused on learning other languages as well? Right now I only know Perl, but I've played with C++ a little. Should C++ and C# be my goals? And which other languages should I learn?

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Re: Re: C Perl and every employer wants .net and asp by CountZero (Bishop) on Dec 12, 2002 at 22:25 UTC
You should focus on learning programming skills, not just programming languages. I started learning COBOL (now I'm really showing my age) then learned and used various forms of BASIC, started with C (wasn't really my thing), had a dab at Java (definitely not my thing) and finally "settled" on PERL (and I'm forgetting that I also use SQL, XML, XSLT, ...) The thing is: in all languages there are the same basic skills which come back over and over again and you will find that you will "learn" a language faster and faster the more experience you have. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: C Perl and every employer wants .net and asp by krujos (Curate) on Dec 12, 2002 at 23:42 UTC
This is an exelent point CountZero, one that helped me a lot in college. eh... if it makes you feel any better some schools (see data and file processing)	[reply]