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Dante Hicks · 31 Aug 2005, 16:47

It depends on how you learn. I personally found PHP/Perl/etc to pickup much easier than my various attempts to learn C not because they were inherently easier (although they are) but because I could get immediate results with "realistic" small projects (writing dymanic websites, parsing large text files, sorting out mp3s, etc). With C++ you seem to have to do quite a lot to achieve very little which I found dampened by enthusiasm considerably.

Also, the amount of good free non-ad infested resources for these languages is immense.

I'd personally go for either C or Perl, although as Pabs said once you're familiar with certain concepts it's a lot easier to try others.

31 Aug 2005, 16:47	#8
Dante Hicks Clerk Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 13,940	Re: What Language is the "best" to learn? It depends on how you learn. I personally found PHP/Perl/etc to pickup much easier than my various attempts to learn C not because they were inherently easier (although they are) but because I could get immediate results with "realistic" small projects (writing dymanic websites, parsing large text files, sorting out mp3s, etc). With C++ you seem to have to do quite a lot to achieve very little which I found dampened by enthusiasm considerably. Also, the amount of good free non-ad infested resources for these languages is immense. I'd personally go for either C or Perl, although as Pabs said once you're familiar with certain concepts it's a lot easier to try others.