Ziay!

BeyondShadow

Talk about where developers should be, and what they should know in a few years if they need to stay in the technical side

ignacionr2

As for a programming language, C++ has been for many decades a good bet. Maybe there are more productive constructs in Ruby, Java, C#, Pearl, but you still can do things that are disallowed for those langs.

Besides, in spite what they may say, every new operating system/component model/framework/initiative since the 1990s has been written mostly in C and C++, or at least to be programmed with C and C++.

So, nothing you can't do, nowhere you can't go with C++. As for the productivity part, if under Microsoft operating systems, then you have proprietary idioms that make .NET work with C++. If under other OSes, then you will always find ways to make scripts interact with C++ programmes.

I took my BASIC programming course when I was 8. At the age of 20 I realized I would have been able to have so much more fun with computers if only I had chosen C++. I won't let that happen to my daughter!!!