Sven Aluoor wrote: > Hi folks > > I have more than 12 years experience with UNIX system administration, > but I am too stupid for programming. My only programming experience is > shell scripting. I tried to learn Java, but don't understand it > because it is too complicated for my limited brainpower. Got about halfway up the learning curve for java, teaching it to myself about four years ago. I ****->LOATHE<-**** java. Coming one of these days, an article "The Failure of OO In General, and Java In Particular. > > What programming language should I learn? > > A friend said that C-Sharp (Mono) is very simple. Is this true? C. Then try C++. Are you familiar with perl? mark