I thought it would be a good idea to put toghether a to-do ist of
languages to learn.

For me I think starting at an easy high-level language like Java or
Python is the way to go and then you work your way down to lower level languages.

This is my hierachy of order in which I want to learn them:

- Java
- Python
- D
- C++
- C
- Put Free Pascal in here cause why not (I looks nice and I have played
around with it)

I find the last two can be interchangeable. I would probably do C first
then CPP to understand the core of C++ (I know they are different
languages but still).

For me I feel like that is a good list. I think D could have Nim go
alongside with it but D for me is the better choice as of now.

Anyway, I am going to be busy doing a lot of computer sciency stuff this holiday and that starts with Java - then through the years I will get to
the others (Python and D can be done this year as well as I know Python
pretty well and D is really simple).

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On 2017-03-22 07:07 PM, Deavmi wrote:

I thought it would be a good idea to put toghether a to-do ist of
languages to learn.

For me I think starting at an easy high-level language like Java or
Python is the way to go and then you work your way down to lower level languages.

This is my hierachy of order in which I want to learn them:

- Java
- Python
- D
- C++
- C
- Put Free Pascal in here cause why not (I looks nice and I have
played around with it)

I find the last two can be interchangeable. I would probably do C first
then CPP to understand the core of C++ (I know they are different
languages but still).

For me I feel like that is a good list. I think D could have Nim go
alongside with it but D for me is the better choice as of now.

Anyway, I am going to be busy doing a lot of computer sciency stuff this holiday and that starts with Java - then through the years I will get to
the others (Python and D can be done this year as well as I know Python pretty well and D is really simple).

The reason I mention Free Pascal and even C is because I like old
languages (C is useful though) but I'd like to learn Pascal and see and
do things how they did back in the day. Plus, it isn't actually useless.

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Re: My language to do list
By: Deavmi to DOVE-Net.Programming on Wed Mar 22 2017 07:07 pm

I thought it would be a good idea to put toghether a to-do ist of
languages to learn.

For me I think starting at an easy high-level language like Java or
Python is the way to go and then you work your way down to lower level languages.

For me, it isn't more of languages, but frameworks and stacks. As far as langiages go:
- FreeBASIC
- Ruby
- Visual Basic (catch up)
- C++

Can't you tell that I have a soft spot for BASIC dialects? :)

Now, as far as frameworks and stacks goes:
- Docker
- MEAN

I have an idea for my first containerized microservice, but the lack of time prevents me from actually working on it. Also, it only fills a special niche that I can only see maybe one or two other people who could use it.
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My interests are languages themself. I want to be a language designer and also work on Internet protocols. Therefore I'd so my language choice above is great.

Maybe I will try out Common Lisp oneday but it isn't a must.

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- Put Free Pascal in here cause why not (I looks nice and I have played around with it)

Pascal still has a special place in my hart, having work with it so many
years, with Lazarus ( http://www.lazarus-ide.or. ) you get a free multi-platform devellopement environement that enable you to write code and port it easily on multi platform .

But honestly it might have lost a lot of traction.

Myself I'm considering swift for my next project since now it's been open sourced by apple and IBM is porting it to cloud applications. And it's fast.

Just my 2 cents

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On 2017-03-23 06:34 PM, Ennev wrote:

- Put Free Pascal in here cause why not (I looks nice and I have played around with it)

Pascal still has a special place in my hart, having work with it so many years, with Lazarus ( http://www.lazarus-ide.or. ) you get a free multi-platform devellopement environement that enable you to write code and port it easily on multi platform .

But honestly it might have lost a lot of traction.

Myself I'm considering swift for my next project since now it's been open sourced by apple and IBM is porting it to cloud applications. And it's fast.

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What about D? Nim? (I just don't really want to get involved with Swift,
not that I have anything against it but I like other languages).

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Ennev wrote to Deavmi <=-

Pascal still has a special place in my hart, having work with it so
many years, with Lazarus ( http://www.lazarus-ide.or. ) you get a free multi-platform devellopement environement that enable you to write code and port it easily on multi platform .

My Pascal goes back to the days of DOS and Turbo Pascal. Actually, no, back to TP3 on CP/M. :) I have a soft spot for Pascal as well, and the path of least resistance for me will be relearning Pascal using FPC/Lazarus.


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Maybe I will try out Common Lisp oneday but it isn't a must.

Remember Lisp from the day I was develloping tool for autocad. That was fun I like working with stack.

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What about D? Nim? (I just don't really want to get involved with Swift,
not that I have anything against it but I like other languages).

Hear of D not familiar with nim. Will check.

For someone who want to learn a pure object oriented language smallTalk is a good place to look to. The concept you lean there is usefull when you go to other OO language like java, c# etc.

In the period I was using, smallTalk was written like 90% in smallTalk.

something like :

1 + 2

is actually interpreted as something like this:

An object of the type number with the property of 1 is sent a message called "+" ( you can see it as a method ) passing as a parameter an object of type number with the property of 2

in smallTalk everything is either an object or a message to it.

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My Pascal goes back to the days of DOS and Turbo Pascal. Actually, no,
back to TP3 on CP/M. :) I have a soft spot for Pascal as well, and the
path of least resistance for me will be relearning Pascal using
FPC/Lazarus.

Wow. I believed that turbo pascal was a dos only product. It was in cp/m too! Cool

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Ennev wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Wow. I believed that turbo pascal was a dos only product. It was in
cp/m too! Cool

Yes, TP 3 was the last version available for CP/M I used it on both the Apple // (with Z80 Softcard) and the Microbee (an Australian Z80 based machine).


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Re: Re: My language to do list
By: Ennev to Deavmi on Thu Mar 23 2017 05:29 pm

What about D? Nim? (I just don't really want to get involved with Swift, not that I have anything against it but I like other languages).

Hear of D not familiar with nim. Will check.

For someone who want to learn a pure object oriented language smallTalk is a good place to look to. The concept you lean there is usefull when you go to other OO language like java, c# etc.

In the period I was using, smallTalk was written like 90% in smallTalk.

something like :

1 + 2

is actually interpreted as something like this:

An object of the type number with the property of 1 is sent a message called "+" ( you can see it as a method ) passing as a parameter an object of type number with the property of 2

in smallTalk everything is either an object or a message to it.

Maybe oneday I will take Smalltalk for a spin. Seems like a good llanguage to learn to learn how objects pass messages to each other, not that I know much about that.

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Re: My language to do list
By: Deavmi to DOVE-Net.Programming on Wed Mar 22 2017 07:07 pm

I thought it would be a good idea to put toghether a to-do ist of
languages to learn.

For me I think starting at an easy high-level language like Java or
Python is the way to go and then you work your way down to lower level languages.

This is my hierachy of order in which I want to learn them:

- Java

ew

- Python

good for beginners.

- D

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On 2017-03-27 04:09 AM, Mro wrote:

Re: My language to do list
By: Deavmi to DOVE-Net.Programming on Wed Mar 22 2017 07:07 pm

I thought it would be a good idea to put toghether a to-do ist of languages to learn.

For me I think starting at an easy high-level language like Java or
Python is the way to go and then you work your way down to lower level languages.

This is my hierachy of order in which I want to learn them:

- Java

ew

- Python

good for beginners.

- D

skip it
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I like D.

One must have both natively compiled languages (D) and interpreted
languages (Java and Python). That's how I and I know a lot of others feel.

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Re: Re: My language to do list
By: Deavmi to Mro on Mon Mar 27 2017 02:05 pm

- D

skip it

I like D.

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One must have both natively compiled languages (D) and interpreted
languages (Java and Python). That's how I and I know a lot of others feel.

Java is compiled, not interpreted. However Java does use a sort of virtual machine, which allows you to run compiled Java code on any platform.

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On 2017-04-04 02:56 AM, Nightfox wrote:

One must have both natively compiled languages (D) and interpreted
languages (Java and Python). That's how I and I know a lot of others feel.

Java is compiled, not interpreted. However Java does use a sort of virtual machine, which allows you to run compiled Java code on any platform.

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It is compiled but not to code that can run on a CPU (machine code) -
unless you have a high-level architecture which is uncommon in consumer
CPUs.

The compiled code, Java's bytecode, runs in a virtual machine that
interprets that code.

Compare this to C where C does not generate bytecode but rather machine
code for a specific platform and executes that (on the CPU).

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On 2017-04-04 02:56 AM, Nightfox wrote:

One must have both natively compiled languages (D) and interpreted
languages (Java and Python). That's how I and I know a lot of others feel.

Java is compiled, not interpreted. However Java does use a sort of virtual machine, which allows you to run compiled Java code on any platform.

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Python also compiles to bytecode; not machine code.

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On 2017-04-04 02:56 AM, Nightfox wrote:

One must have both natively compiled languages (D) and interpreted
languages (Java and Python). That's how I and I know a lot of others feel.

Java is compiled, not interpreted. However Java does use a sort of virtual machine, which allows you to run compiled Java code on any platform.

Nightfox

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Wikipedia:

Bytecode, also termed portable code or p-code, is a form of

instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter.

The HVM or Python runtime are the interpreters for this Bytecode.

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On 2017-04-04 02:56 AM, Nightfox wrote:

One must have both natively compiled languages (D) and interpreted
languages (Java and Python). That's how I and I know a lot of others feel.

Java is compiled, not interpreted. However Java does use a sort of virtual machine, which allows you to run compiled Java code on any platform.

Nightfox

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Java gone native https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava

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Re: Re: My language to do list
By: Deavmi to Nightfox on Tue Apr 04 2017 02:45 pm

Python also compiles to bytecode; not machine code.

Perhaps that's more transparent than it is with Java? Typically with Python, there is no specific 'compile' step as there is with Java - When I've worked with Java, the typical use is that you run the Python code directly with the Python interpreter.

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Re: Re: My language to do list
By: Deavmi to Nightfox on Tue Apr 04 2017 02:45 pm

Java is compiled, not interpreted. However Java does use a sort of virtua

l

machine, which allows you to run compiled Java code on any platform.

Python also compiles to bytecode; not machine code.

Hmmm... I'm wondering if this is becoming the norm now with langages. I know that .NET is similar, but it's called, "MSIL", not bytecode; and it's not a VM, but a CLR.

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On 04/04/2017 22:16, Nightfox wrote:

Re: Re: My language to do list
By: Deavmi to Nightfox on Tue Apr 04 2017 02:45 pm

Python also compiles to bytecode; not machine code.

Perhaps that's more transparent than it is with Java? Typically with Python, there is no specific 'compile' step as there is with Java - When I've worked with Java, the typical use is that you run the Python code directly with the Python interpreter.

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I'd say it is transparent.

I am aware it is not so with Java as one must invoke the compiler,
javac, `javac hello.java` to generate the bytecode file in the form of a `.class` file and then this bytecode can be given to the VM/interpreter
via `java hello` (which uses the `.class` file).

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On 05/04/2017 07:23, jagossel wrote:

Re: Re: My language to do list
By: Deavmi to Nightfox on Tue Apr 04 2017 02:45 pm

Java is compiled, not interpreted. However Java does use a sort of virtua

l

machine, which allows you to run compiled Java code on any platform.

Python also compiles to bytecode; not machine code.

Hmmm... I'm wondering if this is becoming the norm now with langages. I know that .NET is similar, but it's called, "MSIL", not bytecode; and it's not a VM,
but a CLR.

-jag
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In the end it is all a runtime. An interpreter. Something that runs the "bytecode" or whatever you want to call it.

It makes sense to call it a VM some times as the JVM, uses bytecode
which is an instruction set (not one that runs on CPUs as machine code,
unless it is that Java CPU I talked about earlier, but that is out of
this conversation) and therefore a machine can run the instructions
coded in this instruction set hence the JVM.

I just call it an interpreter or whatever.

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Re: Re: My language to do list
By: jagossel to Deavmi on Wed Apr 05 2017 01:23 am

Re: Re: My language to do list
By: Deavmi to Nightfox on Tue Apr 04 2017 02:45 pm

Java is compiled, not interpreted. However Java does use a sort of vir

tua

l

machine, which allows you to run compiled Java code on any platform.

Python also compiles to bytecode; not machine code.

Hmmm... I'm wondering if this is becoming the norm now with langages. I know that .NET is similar, but it's called, "MSIL", not bytecode; and it's not a

VM,

but a CLR.

-jag
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CLR is using CIL code which is Bytecode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Runtime

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