http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/taoup/chapter3.html
ESR's view, worth looking at.
Personally, I continue to take an interest in C, Javascript,
Java, Python and VB, I've given up on Fortran and never was much
good at assembler. Perl seems ... hard ... to me but I fought my way
through a few lines of it. Shell script, and DOS/CMD batch
language hardly count as choices since they are esential, and SQL
and PHP3 likewise.
But I don't claim any of them is a panacea or that it is vital or even
important that we all choose one.
Oh, and there are a lot of doctors who can code despite the day job
- once there are open framework applications - ones with a promise
of growing to excellence and inclusiveness - doctors and other
clinicians will attack routines that are causing them an itch, and
scratch them for everyone else.
--
Adrian Midgley
Exeter
http://www.swis.net/midgley/
