What programming Language To Use??

[Chris27]

Originally Posted by Ether

Why? The conclusion doesn't follow logically from the premise. It seems you've left a step or two out of your argument.

The programming paradigms imposed by the first language a programmer learns solidifies a certain mindset in how that programmer approaches programming problems. Speaking as a computer scientist, I found learning a functional programming language (SML) a completely bizarre experience (pretty much all values, data structures are immutable, there is no iteration, all functions and data structures are recursively defined, functions are 1st class values and then you have continuations, currying, closures, lazy evaluation etc). Basically, SML turned my view of programming upside down and I had to unlearn a lot of the different strategies and concepts I had picked up using C, C++, and Java to effectively use this new tool. I would say the difference between Labview (data flow programming) the C (procedural), or Java C++ (Object oriented programming) or SML, LISP (functional) is quite a bit greater then the differences then these languages have between themselves (especially concerning C like languages). OOP languages are used much more often in both academic and industry environments then Labview. The opinion I hold now as a software engineer is that it would have been a mistake if I had started my venture into the programming world with Labview.

To address the original poster, I vote for Scala .