OK. Im asking cause no one can really answer me on that. It the language ive used the most the past year. It's fun, a bitch to learn on your own but nifty to use. I choose to learn JAVA and not continue with C. So I just hope I made the right choice
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The vast number of open source projects, the Eclipse framework with plugins for everything and a handy plugin mechanism to develop your own plugins...the strong community and the joy of progamming without pointers. You can also debug into everything and see how every library works inside....there is a plugin for Eclipse that even de-compiles on-the-fly for the case you haven't got the source code of your libraries.

The only drawback is doing things like DirectShow or driver development which is a bit slower and unreliable using the Java Virtual Machine.

If you are doing C, this is only a good idea if you are interested in electronics and playing with soldering irons......it is only useful for hardware-level programming.

ok. Im only a beginner in it. So point noted. All i know is that is the best programming langauge ive use. It has its little problems in certain areas but Java is still in development and new things get added everyday.
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I am too biassed to give a comment about learning something from scratch. I am not sure whether you necessarily need to know the lower layers for the majority of work that needs to be done. The majority of "open tasks" in the it world is donkey work...the rest maybe some more demanding jobs where you really need to be aware of the lower layers and even hardware.

The more demanding a software project, the more you need to be aware of "everything" such as the hardware restrictions and the lower levels such as the compiler, virtual machine in the case of Java for instance or even in assembly/(assembler?) language. On the other hand there could also be "demanding" software projects that are demanding as far as the overall system and pure software architecture is concerned..for those jobs you would not even need to know a particular programming language...in theory...and just draw uml diagrams. Those people are called "software architects" and in the end really just draw diagrams and the rest is done by the "lower layers" .

kebabman wrote:

Toby, what is that a diagram of? I fail to see a logical pattern to a lot of it, and there's glaring omissions if it's an 'evolution of languages' eg C++ evolved more from objective C which evolved from C which evolved from B. objective C isn't on there and neither is B, and it says that C++ evolved from smalltalk 80 just because smalltalk 80 was one of the first object oriented languages I'm probably missing the point of the diagram

OK thanx for your help guys. It seems I have a few things to got read up. See you guys around
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To be honest I have just looked on Google for a random diagram....couldnt find the one I was after.

I looked at the top...and saw as Haskell and Java.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/StammbaumProgrammiersprachen.jpg

now everyone knows why google is my friend when matt gets in work mode