Good language to progress from Java

texasone · 11-04-2010, 04:06 PM

At the moment, I am learning how to code in java in school right now. It is the only language I know so far. I am going to be progressing in java after this semester as it very popular in the job field for many companies. However, next semester I want to work on another program in addition to java so I don't have to rely on java for all my programming needs. So my question is, what is a good language to progress to. Should I stick with a OOP language such as C++ or python or should I learn something like C (non OOP)?

paulsm4 · 11-04-2010, 04:37 PM

Take a look at the Tiobe Index:

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   Top Programming Languages 
          (long-term)

Language     2010  2005  1995  1985
--------     ----  ----  ----  ----
Java 	      1     1     6     -
C             2     2     1     1
C++           3     3     2    10
PHP           4     4     -     -
(VB)Basic     5     6     3     4
C#            6     7     -     -
Python        7     8    17     -
Objective-C   8    44     - 	-
Perl          9     5     4 	-
Ruby         10    24     - 	-
Lisp         13    14     8 	2
Ada          17    16    11 	3

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Currently Objective-C is far ahead with +2.54%. Runner-ups so far are Python (+0.96%) and C# (+0.55%).

And don't forget about things like Flash, Javascript, CSS and HTML. Which may or may not meet everybody's definition of "languages" (depending on the context) - but are definitely things worth learning about.

One final suggestion:
http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/functional_programming

'Hope that helps!