A real programmer

[smoothedatol412]

Hello All,
I am a computer programmer hobbyist who was to learn more about how to be a better programmer. I currently trying to learn python as a scripting language, because I started with Ruby because when I looked at how programmer would use that to write real networking code but so far all I see is rails, rails, and rails; but the syntax for networking was great how the sockets could be used with the kernel module loops. Python is the only scripting language that I see that most coders could use the word "hacking" with but the syntax and multiple inheritance does make for ugly code. I tried Java as well but from what I have done and seen Java can only go so far, which I am displeased with that because of the JVM and the byte code I thought would be used more because of the old Java saying
"compile once, run anywhere".
I mean Java is used a lot because of its cross platform capabilities weather its for moblie, networking, or data structure design. Most of the time it does come back to C, the language that UNIX/LINUX was written in riding on the CPU which does add a lot of performance out of it 2nd only to assembly languages. I am not in this to crash site I am in this to learn the secrets within the computer that only a few people have seen, and most people dont care about.
I want to not be the king of the internet but the the pope, since the title of pope use to mean the keeper of the sacred knowledge; the knowledge most people do not want to talk the time to learn. I am not in this as a hobbyist I am in this because I love computer, data, and how I see the internet being used in the next ten years. I want to explore every part of the internet and interior digital work of the CPU.

Can anyone out there help me become the programmer I know I can be, and help me get started??

[smoothedatol412]

I guess I can tell why no one posted a reply to this posting, but you cannot blame a programer for trying.
Happy Coding too All..

[Cool_Fire]

Ruby (and Rails): Rails is just a framework to make web applications. Ruby itself is very well suited to do networking stuff because of it's ease to work with sockets.

C and assembly: You'll have to write some pretty damn efficient assembly to make it run faster than it would be when written in C. GCC has some really good optimization. (Truth be told, microsoft's C compiler is really good too.)

Python: Personally, I don't like python. It's a fine language and you can do lots with it, but I just don't like writing it.

Java: As you said, good if you need stuff to be cross platform. Most of the GUI stuff is standard across platforms too, which makes it my language of choice for GUI applications.

Long story short: Right tool for the right job. Just pick a project that seems fun to do and roll with it.