Howdy folks. I'm looking to learn a new language and would appreciate some help in selecting one <img src="http://static.dreamincode.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> I want to avoid any false-starts by putting down some 'musts' and 'must-nots' and mabye you guys could give me some languages to think about and mabye we can whittle them down to 1.<br /><br />I have a lot of experience in php, and I used to be ok with C and Java. I dabbled a bit with the win32 API in visual basic also. Its been a long while since I've done any programming, and I think mabye its a good time to rethink my language of choice rather than just delve back in to one.<br /><br />Anyway, here's my list of demands <img src="http://static.dreamincode.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /><br /><br />Must:<br /> ...be flexible and reasonably powerful. (in terms of scope)<br /> ...be able to access the win32 API. I think I'll be doing a lot of work involving window hooking and API calls.<br /> ...be able to learn it relitively quickly (within reason)<br /> ...be able to spit out native windows excecutables<br /><br />Must-Not:<br /> ...require stupid amounts of code to perform simple tasks.<br /> ...be a very high level language.<br /> ...run in a VM or sandbox.<br /><br />Bonus points if the language uses c-style syntax.<br /><br />-Hope you can help, guys <img src="http://static.dreamincode.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
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" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> I want to avoid any false-starts by putting down some 'musts' and 'must-nots' and mabye you guys could give me some languages to think about and mabye we can whittle them down to 1.<br /><br />I have a lot of experience in php, and I used to be ok with C and Java. I dabbled a bit with the win32 API in visual basic also. Its been a long while since I've done any programming, and I think mabye its a good time to rethink my language of choice rather than just delve back in to one.<br /><br />Anyway, here's my list of demands <img src="http://static.dreamincode.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /><br /><br />Must:<br /> ...be flexible and reasonably powerful. (in terms of scope)<br /> ...be able to access the win32 API. I think I'll be doing a lot of work involving window hooking and API calls.<br /> ...be able to learn it relitively quickly (within reason)<br /> ...be able to spit out native windows excecutables<br /><br />Must-Not:<br /> ...require stupid amounts of code to perform simple tasks.<br /> ...be a very high level language.<br /> ...run in a VM or sandbox.<br /><br />Bonus points if the language uses c-style syntax.<br /><br />-Hope you can help, guys <img src="http://static.dreamincode.net/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /></div>