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[Sicklyboy]

IMO, C++ and Java are the ways to go.

I've been programming for 2 years now and have yet to make anything useful. Though I did make a horrible video game with OpenGL in C++.

 

[Mazor]

C# all the way
QUOTE(plasma dragon007 @ Aug 11 2011, 06:43 PM) IMO, C++ and Java are the ways to go.

In my opinion as someone who has been programming for several years, it's terrible to say that one or two languages are the ones that should be used.

Different languages have different pros and cons. For instance, C# and Java are high level languages and as such it may be simple to write code in them. This comes at the cost of comparatively slow application performance and binaries that require .NET and a JVM respectively to run. C++ on the other hand is a lower level language than C# and Java and can therefor in many cases achieve better performance than those languages. This is at the cost of the programmer potentially having to write more and/or more complex code. C++ is also widely criticized for some aspects of its syntax, such as ambiguity.

There's no perfect language. The viability of using a programming language to solve a problem is specific to that problem, it varies from case to case.