Other Programming Languages

**mfc2themax** · 10-18-2001

While i hate MS, VB is a good thing. Its fast to develop with and you can do pretty powerful stuff in it. I ended up writing all my COM+ objects in it for my last project, before i went to work rational software. (not a programming job)

**~~Troll_King~~** · 10-18-2001

I'm also forced to take VB in College. I would rather take VB.NET but they are still teaching VB6. I'm trying to avoid this course but I'll have to take it eventually. I've heard that COM and COM+ are being replaced by .NET components yet there is a way to port COM/COM+ projects.

**Stoned_Coder** · 10-19-2001

asm or Delphi

**-KEN-** · 10-19-2001

I loooovvveee ASM. It's not as hard to learn as some people think, and you can do fairly interesting things with it.

**Fordy** · 10-19-2001

>>I loooovvveee ASM

I would love to have some knowledge of ASM......One day......

**oskilian** · 10-19-2001

Learn ASM, you could make fast apps if ur good

Oskilian

**Fordy** · 10-19-2001

I'm just looking at what people like hillbillie's doing and I find it really interesting. I know next to nothing about ground level OS workings or design........and ASM would help........one day I will put some work into it

**cozman** · 10-19-2001

I don't like the Microsoft Visual *'s and I don't feel like buying something just to learn a hobby language.

I'm narrowing it down now, i'm either going to learn:

C# (but come to think of it this requires a MSV*, right?)

8086-asm (may take more time than i initially wanted to spend but it's more useful than the other choices)

or Delphi, it would put the Pascal I had to learn for Computer Science to some good use i guess.

Suggestions on best place to learn these/compiler for them?

**-KEN-** · 10-19-2001

C# could be cool to learn as a net language. I have an account and the host has a .NET structure there so I can use it...the only problem is that it has an OLD build of asp.net which is missing some things...

**rick barclay** · 10-19-2001

Learn whatever you can. They all have their uses. VB get a lot
of criticism here, but I'll tell you what: I wouldn't be surprised if
more people used VB than any other language. I think that's the
case. IF you like the Web, then it's Java, Jscript, PHP, Perl, Python.

rick barclay

**-KEN-** · 10-19-2001

>>IF you like the Web, then it's Java, Jscript, PHP, Perl, Python.

AND VBScript, ASP, C#, <other .NET langs>, XML, XHTML, HTML, blahblahblah....

**basilisk** · 10-19-2001

i've spent the last couple of weeks trying to learn ASP and VBScript so that i can integrate a web page form with Exchange server and then manipulate the email that comes into the server.

I have managed to write the web form have got it to create a session to the exchange server and mail my public folder however i am now getting mapi errors when the exchange server event scripting agent kicks in and tries to manipulate that email using vbscript - aaarrrghhh - this though is one very good use of VB as doing this in VC++ would be a major headache

**Garfield** · 10-19-2001

"Why learn another language it you have the power of" C.

> (sorry but i hate VB so much, it managed to drain so much of the fun out of programming for me) <
Me too. It didn't drain the fun out, but it was definitely a bad experience. But, maybe that was a good way to start (and only start). I don't know.

**Aran** · 10-19-2001

Who needs another language when you have C++?

if MS sticks with C#, i will learn it for sure. i think i may go into some CGI too... maybe that way i can write my own bb..