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Old November 2nd, 2007, 12:13 PM
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Ok,
I read this post yesterday but I needed to dig up some info before I posted, unfortunately I could not find the article on slashdot that I read awhile back. In any event, you said that you "want to learn all computer languages..." the problem with that statement is that I don't think that there is a single person in the world that knows ALL computer languages!

While not an exhaustive list, here is a look at some languages that do exist: http://home.nvg.org/~sk/lang/lang.html

Moving on, here are some answers to the questions you posed:
1. Unless you are willing to pay someone to give you 1 on 1 training, forums are going to be your best bet in so far as a tutor goes. Here is the thing though, if you were to go into the Begining ASP.NET 2.0 forum right now and were to ask an arbitrary question like:

How do I declare a string variable? You are going to get responses of links to articles about the language, books that can help you, etc. (All of use are here to help you with problems and teaching is inheriant as we help you, but none of us are here to teach you how to program.)

2. What do you ultimately want to do? For example if you want to write ISAPI modules that plug into IIS you are going to want to learn C++ if you want to create Web applications something like ASP.NET (VB or C#) or PHP is what you will want to look into. Personally I am a Microsoft guy and I started out learning Visual Basic back when it was in its 4.0 release. To date I am a Web Developer and primarily use C#. Unfortunately there is no easy answer to your question as it is a matter of personal opinion, IMHO I think that VB is a good language for a beginner but others may say PHP or PERL are good beginner languages.

3. I do not know what you mean by Build Language, do you mean to say an Interpeted language (VBScript for example is interpeted implmentation where as VB.NET is a compiled implementation)?

hth.

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