Learning a language

Is C still relevant or would flash be better to learn?

Silverlight and Flash will die to HTML5 shortly.

"Is C still relevant?" Only if you want to be an actual software developer instead of a glorified web designer waiting for your job to get outsourced to Apu in Bangalore.

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Javaf­ag is right. Compared to C/C++ Java isn't really suitable for large real-world projects (no preprocessor, no linker, on inline assembly, poor ability to integrate with lower-level code, stuck with 16-bit Unicode instead of UTF8, a lot of the system libraries are poorly organized and poorly documented, etc.) But it is also easy to learn, cross-platform and used in a lot of real-world problem domains. Android apps are written in Java with different libraries and with Google's slightly-modified ripoff of the Java Virtual Machine. A lot of web back-ends use Apache Tomcat with Java servlets. There are some big real-world applications like Eclipse written in Java although they use native GUI libraries because Java's cross-platform GUI libraries suck. So I'd say Java is a good place for a new programmer to start. Toy scripting languages like Python, Perl, etc. are convenient for slapping together scripts but they aren't really programming and they'll teach you bad habits.

C should have remained a portable assembly. Now we have ugly C hacks polluting the high-level domain.

>>2
Silverlight and Flash will die to HTML5 shortly.
I wish people would stop propagating this myth. It may die eventually, as technologies do, but not "shortly" by any stretch of the imagination.

The practice of using Flash to build basic motion interfaces, which is HTML5's greatest strength, fell out of vogue years before HTML5 became a "thing". HTML5 <video> is mired in file format dickwaving, and <audio> is still a fairy tale. Canvas is still in its infancy. Flash has a solid API and it's available, widely supported, cross browser, *right now* -- save for Steve Jobs's alpha male douchebaggery.

That said, Flash is a tool for certain kinds of jobs; depending on what kind of programming you'd want to do, AS3 (an ECMA variant) is as good a place to start as any.

Everything you can do in C, you can do better in Flash.

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1/10

>Silverlight
MS shit that died instantly
>Flash
Closed-source shit that managed to live on because it was the only good option, will be dying eventually

also pure shit