What language will be spoken in far future...

[dolgov]

Hello.. i am 28 (old?) The only language i know is russian. oh and english
and hebrew..... so i can communicate with probably two billion people. not enough for me.... i want to talk with computers as well... So yes, this is my question. For what language will i be payed for in next 10 years. I heard that entire south pacific and guys from China are learning Java and C++. I live in europe so i think i might have a problem with salary in future. Please help me to choose a programming language what goes well with linux. It must be a new language, not one that was born a hundred years ago. by the way i am not good at math.

Yok shomk!

[techieMoe]

No one can possibly predict what languages will be use in the far future, or even the near one. Why must it be a new language? Linux was originally developed in C and it's still being developed in C. What makes you think C is just going to disappear?

I guess I'm part of China or the south pacific, because I'd also suggest Java or C/C++. (By the way, I'm American.)

[dolgov]

I just concerned about the future that`s all.. So what i think if lots of people will be able to offer knowledge in C language it will not be worth that much as it probably now. therefore nobody is going to pay you for it. Thats what ithink. but i dont know much in that field.

[techieMoe]

I just concerned about the future that`s all.. So what i think if lots of people will be able to offer knowledge in C language it will not be worth that much as it probably now. therefore nobody is going to pay you for it. Thats what ithink. but i dont know much in that field.

Don't worry about the state of the market 10 years from now; worry about what can get you a job *now*. Most companies aren't going to just lay you off if your original skill set is C/C++ and they decide to spontaneously change their codebase.

First of all, most companies don't just change their entire codebase on a whim, and when they do they will take the time to train you in what they're planning on using in the future. I work with people who were originally hired to write COBOL and have been trained to write Java.

[dolgov]

ok. so C++ then.... how quick can you learn it from scratch?

[techieMoe]

ok. so C++ then.... how quick can you learn it from scratch?

That really depends on you. It took me a couple of months to get a good solid base in C++, but I also had written code in other languages (Pascal, C) before.

[dolgov]

was it your first language what u learnt? how old were you then?

[coopstah13]

I learned pascal when I was 15, c++ at 16 through high school classes.
Being that i'm in the field, the languages with the biggest precedence being C++ and Java mostly. Lots of unix/linux development is still in C though. Lots of companies these days are going with java i'd say and its a good language to learn since its platform independent. All these languages can be picked up by a person eager to learn them!

[techieMoe]

was it your first language what u learnt? how old were you then?

Pascal was my first programming language, and I was nine years old at the time. I learned C in high school, C++ in college, and Java at my current job (ages 14, 17, and 21 respectively).

[dolgov]

wait a minute C goes better with linux then c++ , doesn`t it ?