I have been thinking about starting to make applications i can use to make my life as a webmaster a little bit easier. What can you recommend for me? I have looked at PERL abit, but i dont want to start learing something i perhaps gonna skip because i found something better? I know php, mysql. So something similiar to that perhaps? Would be nice if you got a good link or something aswell. Cheers!
yes... its support is vast (community, source codes, scripts, ...) and it's free! screw ASP/MSSQL (250MB install pack - burrrrp *vomit)... (no flame please ))))
Well. I want to make .EXE programs etc and all that. Programs that can help me in that way. And i want to learn something new!
If you're just looking for something new then you might want to look into Python. It's being billed as the replacement for Perl. I've no personal experience with either language though, it's all from what I've heard others say. Bear in mind though that any new language will take a while to become comfortable with them and PHP can be used on the command line. You can even create a GUI for a PHP app if you really want.
My site listed in my sig is all written in mod_perl. I'm a big fan of perl because it is extremely flexible. The data feeds that I have that gather sports news are also all perl and run as a cron job on my webserver. If you want to learn a popular and powerful all purpose language I'd give Perl a close look. Of course, I heard that the game Eve Online was written in all stackless Python? crazy!
Oh so you want to make applications that you can run on your computer that help you make a website, not ones that you sue online for a website? If so, try looking at C# - its got similar syntax to PHP and it is free to use (look for and download the Visual Studio C# Express IDE - its free from Microsoft and is pretty decent if you cant afford the full Visual Studio)
yea c# is probably your best bet or something similar like C, all similar syntax to PHP (some functions are identical). C also has a neat mysql port, so you can talk with mysql pretty easily.
I still like Perl especially if you'd like to make some money with it down the line. Every CS program in the country is churning out thousands of Java, .NET and C# programmers a year. Not so much with Perl which is also heavily utilized in the business sector (not only for the web). Plus Perl is ideal for banging out maintenance and bulk processing scripts.
j0han i would advised you C# since you want to programe both web and non-web plataforms. C# is very alike in syntax with java and php and you can easilly write web applications ( via asp .net ) and windows applications. also it's support is imense since it's a growing programing language.