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androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:35 am

any help and links will be appreciated

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:40 am

http://java.sun.com

edit: and you might want to pick up Eclipse to use as your IDE: http://www.eclipse.org/

Hernan · Post by **Hernan** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:48 am

It would help to know what platform you are using and which types of tasks you want your programs to perform.

For example, Perl, Python and C/ C++ have free implementations on a variety of platforms. They all have their plus/minuses for different types of tasks, of course, but they are more or less popular.

I don't have any links handy, but a Google search should give enough information on these programming languages. A free compiler for C / C++ is "GCC" from gnu.org if I remember correctly. Some Perl documentation can be found at perldoc.org.

Hope this helps... :\

Hernan

Hernan · Post by **Hernan** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:52 am

Yeah, Java, I forgot. Nice language, not perfect but OK, depending on what type of applications you are writing.

Lots of web services and enterprise stuff is being done on Java. Lots of libraries too, so you don't have to write everything from scratch.

Hernan

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:04 am

windows xp. i just want a language that's versatile. i liked c++when i tried it years ago. it wasn't hard to grasp. the object thing is fun.

jtxx000 · Post by **jtxx000** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:08 am

Java would probably be your best bet then... no need to muck about with pointers and whatnot.

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:12 am

thanks for the help all

;-) · Post by **;-)** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:15 am

androidlove wrote:windows xp. i just want a language that's versatile. i liked c++when i tried it years ago. it wasn't hard to grasp. the object thing is fun.

If you did like C++ (and found it easy to learn), then it would be hard to find something better. It is the industry standard for some reasons and probably most powerful due to its direct inheritance from C and also completely platform independant.

Nearly all operating systems are written in C/C++.

But I don't even know, what you meaned with "general purpose".

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aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:18 am

you probably need five years and c++ if you want to do anything worth the effort. otherwise get visual basic.

;-) · Post by **;-)** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:18 am

jtxx000 wrote:Java would probably be your best bet then... no need to muck about with pointers and whatnot.

That ("muck about with pointers"), is actually the most powerful and efficient feature with that language C/C++, which set it appart from the "script kiddy" languages.

And well, progrramming languages are mostly "free", by the way.

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Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:24 am

Not getting involved in code wars.

If you liked C++ and are interested in pursuing your interest in it, here is a fairly well known free IDE which integrates with a free compiler backend.

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

When I attempted to pursue an interest in C++, I started here.

Caleb

LIMITAPROACHINGINFINITY · Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:26 am

At first i thought that c++ pointers were mucky.. THen i gave some try at a language without them.. Pointers are an incredibly efficient way to program.. Not just cpu efficient either! Programming time efficient!

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:37 am

i think the dev-c++ is gonna do it fer me. thanx caleb. thanx all

respirator · Post by **respirator** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:13 pm

jzero · Post by **jzero** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:25 pm

C# takes the best of java and significantly improves on GUI development. I've heard the commandline version of the compiler is free.

best general purpose programming language? for free?