The most important programming languages for the web?

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by johnvejnoska • 15 years ago

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What would you pick if you could only learn / know three programming languages?

Tangaroa• 15 years ago

For "the web"? HTML, CSS, and Javascript. If HTML doesn't count as a real programming language, add SQL. You might be looking for an answer along the lines of a backend language like PHP, ASP, or JSP, but they all fill the same need of producing HTML code based on whatever data you have in the system.

If I could only know three languages in general, I would choose Python for a high-level structured language, C for a low-level structured language, and Lisp for a different way of thinking about problems.

copypasteweb• 15 years ago

CSS is not a programming language either.

johnvejnoska• 15 years ago

I should of phrased the question better - I was thinking backend languages - my list is Python, C, and ? Was thinking of another language to learn ...

josegonzalez• 15 years ago

PHP, Ruby, Python. All of these translate into other languages, and with multiple ways of interpreting/compiling them, you get both the flexibility of an interpreted language and the speed of a compiled language.

The most important programming languages for the web?

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