On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:39 AM, William Chops Westfield wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Dr Skip wrote: > > If you were to recommend a programming language to a young engineer- > > to-be to study before college, what would it be ... > > I didn't see Java on either your "maybe" or "reject" list? I do not know much about programming but the fashion seems to be C# and Java and those script language like Perl/Python/Php/Ruby. But for hardware interfacing, C++ seems to be better. C# is not too bad. Java seems to be the worst based on the feedbacks on the web. If you really want cross-platform and hardware interfacing, then it seems none of the above are good enough compare to C/C++. But Python seems to be the better one compare to Java, Php and Ruby. Xiaofan (who is *still* reading "Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition programming for the Absolute Beginner", its C++ counterpart and a bit of Python now after so many years...) -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist