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• Good to clear that up (Score:2)

  by autarch (914)

  I was about to start this new webapp in C _and_ COBOL. I was going to mostly write it in COBOL for the high level logic, and the use C for the performance-intensive bits.
  
  I am _so_ glad I read that article first!
• AJAX is a language now? (Score:1)

  by DAxelrod (4649)

  My favorite entry was AJAX. Since they already have JavaScript as a separate item, what are they actually suggesting learning? XML? XMLHttpRequest? At least they clarify that it isn't a language.
  
  And I love how many imperative programming languages with Algol-derived syntax they list. For balance, there's some OO. They have country *and* western.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by DAxelrod (4649)

    Ooo! How could I miss this gem?

    Java: Hailed by many developers as a "beautiful" language
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by chromatic (983)

      I've often called it "beautiful", but I always include the quotes so everyone knows I'm not serious.
• Why you should learn C (Score:2)

  by bart (450)

  Learning C is crucial. Once you learn C, making the jump to Java or C# is fairly easy, because a lot of the syntax is common. Also, a lot of C syntax is used in scripting languages

  
  Well OK... but what about C?
  
  This quote is only saying that a lot of languages syntactically look like C, but I don't see anything like a reason to learn C itself.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    As if syntax is all that matters.
• Of course, by "number one" you mean... (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735)

  ... that is has a number 1. on it. Note that the article doesn't say anything about it being the best or their top recommendation. It's just the first one displayed.