sohamdas

You mean duct taped languages? Sorry for being pedantic.

Yes, I did hear many good things about Java as a programming language, right from my grad days. C++ is not a pure oops, java is a pure oops, and some other cool stuff.

As I understand, going to Java will be "grammatically" approach but Django and RoR will be a quick and dirty way. Am I right?

I am stunned. Is a simple CMS a basic project for PHP? I must admit I dont know much about it, but then Php looks incredibly powerful

Thanks merijnv,thanks for the inputs.

To be frank,I never did start with PHP, but yes I did flirt with Perl. I know a bit of Perl,(though embarrassed to admit,I lost my patience with Perl midway)

As for Ruby, I strangely had the impression, that I can't attempt at it, without knowing PHP and others.

So anyway for RoR or Django, do I need to learn Ruby and Python respctively to start over, or can I jump straight to it. I have coded in C# and did some personal db work in MySQL . If that helps.

Come on, geeks! You are my last resort.

You need to help me out! :)

Thanks hs, but can you please talk about it a little more? Do you mean to say the entire graphing engine is matplotlib and it has open apis? I dont know, but I dont think so, Mathworks will allow that.

Moreover, any library as such to be used in languages like C/C++/Perl?

Thanks SwellJoes, Thanks gtani

But have you noticed that Perl doesnt really have a great charting/graphing or plotting library? So, I am a bit unsure of developing visualisation tools.

And secondly I would like to ask, will it really have a computation edge while handling MBs of data? Or rather put in this way can it scale?

Hey Vinz giving it a look... I am actually a hardware/electronics guy. I am working on these stuff day in and day out, so just thought up to pry open the latest gadgets to see whats going inside.And thanks for the reco

@ Xirium

Yeah how stuff works is good, but I would like to have a really product differentiating 'under-the-hood' peak. I want to know the h/w difference between Broadcoms Router and Linksys or something to that effect[just for an example]. But HSW will only tell how generic routers work...

"Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman" [absolutely rockstar of a autobiography]

"Every Second Counts" Lance Armstrong [poignant]

"A beautiful mind" John Forbes Nash [moving, and heart wrenching]

My personal favourite: "Icon" Steve Jobs