Rate your language

CaptainHilts

Marks out of 10 for the language you programme in for

1. Dificulty to Master
(1 out of 10 - 3 months expert,
5 out of 10 - 1 year expert
10 out of 10 - 3+ years)

2. Future Employability
(in Ireland over the next 10 years say)

3. Cool applications
( 5 out of 10 - you can build a slick website
10 out of 10 - you can hack the pentagon)

CaptainHilts

Difficulty to Master 6/10: should be competent after a couple of months. solid after a year

Future Employability 7/10 should be a good few opportunities. Come on Facebook to Dublin

Cool Applications 4/10
Databases are low on sex appeal

Mad_Max

Difficulty to master: 1
Future Employement: 1 especially the way i use it
Cooleness: 10, wouldnt suprise me if you could manage to hack the pentagon with it

Webmonkey

Surely 4GL and 3GL cannot be in same category.
SQL is a non-procedural langauge and you cannot 'programme' in it - it simply is used in conjunction with a procedural language so I wouldn't say programming in SQL is very accurate.

For me:

C
Dificulty to Master: 8
Dificulty to Master: 2
Dificulty to Master: 8

zardette

Webmonkey wrote: »

Surely 4GL and 3GL cannot be in same category.
SQL is a non-procedural langauge and you cannot 'programme' in it - it simply is used in conjunction with a procedural language so I wouldn't say programming in SQL is very accurate.

For me:

C
Dificulty to Master: 8
Dificulty to Master: 2
Dificulty to Master: 8

There are versions of SQL that are extended to support procedural programming (loops, decisions, functions,etc)
eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/SQL

Database programming experts would pobably be exposed to similar variations of sql in their work.

leahcim

Surely 4GL and 3GL cannot be in same category.

The OP just asked to rate programming languages, why would it be just limited to 3GLs.

C#

Difficulty to Master
if never programmed before: 10
if migrating from C++ or Java: 4
if migrating from non OO language: 7

Future Employability
8

Cool applications
10

mewso

Webmonkey wrote: »

For me:

C
Dificulty to Master: 8
Dificulty to Master: 2
Dificulty to Master: 8

So it swings from a difficulty of 8 to 2 and back to 8 again?

sobriquet

musician wrote: »

So it swings from a difficulty of 8 to 2 and back to 8 again?

Buffer overflow.

(Just because SQL is non-procedural doesn't mean it's not a programming language. It's declarative. FWIW, TSQL supports looping, branching and functions so it's a pretty complete language in procedural terms. Not that I'd want to write much in it, mind.)

stevenmu

C#/VB.Net (might aswell do both together)

Difficulty to Master 8/10: Can be quite simple, but can be quite complex when needs be.

Future Employability 9/10: Lots of jobs and oppertunities around at all levels, and should be for the foreseeable future. It's not as if MS is going to suddenly close up shop and a lot fo their strategy is based around integrating .Net into everything.

Cool Applications 9/10: Nearly the whole spectrum of programming is covered by .Net, desktop apps, web apps, web services, business/enterprise services/apps, mobile phones/PDAs, games consoles(via XNA)

FWIW, I wouldn't consider SQL a programming language. Programming languages provide sets of instructions to a computer to accomplish a task. SQL provides definitions of data operations for a DBMS to carry out. But for the purposes of this thread it should be included too.

stevenmu

But then again, instructions for a computer are really just definitions of data operations too. Hmmm interesting one.

cornbb

I'm just gonna copy leahcim's format.

Objective C

Difficulty to Master
if never programmed before: 10
if migrating from C++ or Java: 5
if migrating from non OO language: 7

Future Employability
2. No-one wants Mac developers in Ireland :rolleyes:

Cool applications
8 - if used with appropriate libraries (Cocoa, CoreAudio, Quicktime etc etc.)