[thelist] Suggestions for the next technology to learn

Elankath, Tarun (Cognizant) ETarun at blr.cognizant.com
Fri Sep 5 06:16:21 CDT 2003


>PHP and move on to C# or Java, although C# will eat
>Java in soon time (not flaming) but C# is powerful
>and you can get the .NET framework for free.

Don't want to start a war, but I would like to know why do you believe
that C# will 'eat' Java soon ? You can anything in Java that you can do in C#,
but not vice-versa. In addition, the JRE and J2SDK is free for multiple platforms
too. Brilliant IDE's like Eclipse come free as well. Brilliant tools like Ant come
free as well. Heck, you can set up a production Java system for 0 + cost of development.

With the GCJ compiler, you have the option of compiling Java to actual native machine
code, for all the platforms where the GCC compiler family can run.

If there are any technical reasons why 'C#' will 'eat' Java, I would love to hear of them.

Rgds,
Tarun



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> (No language holy-wars please ;)
> 
> I have achieved a level of comfortable proficiency with PHP, 
> a working 
> knowledge of web standards (XHTML / CSS), accessibility issues, XML, 
> client side scripting,  mobile application development (WML 
> only at this 
> stage, although wap 2.0 is XHTML base  anyway) , and have been 
> considering investing some time into learning another server-side 
> technology.
> 
>  From what I can see of the project market here, (Australasia), the 
> largest current demand is for ASP, and Java / JSP developers.
> I have basic experience in ASP, but are there any advantages 
> of starting 
> with one over the other?
> Java interests me from an OOP point (and mobile application) of view, 
> but I realise this is also possible with asp.net.
> 
> Any suggestions, or should I pull out my trusty old 
> future-career-path-picking dartboard?
> 
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