[Bradford] Re-learning coding

[David Spencer]

Yo Andy!  Yeah it'll be good to see you again :-)

I'm in the same boat as you.  Everything I've done since 198* has been
shell scripting or equivalent (and can rant to order about what's
wrong with bash).  I left uni with the 1980 version of object
oriented, which was a great improvement on everything that followed in
C++, Java etc (on the one hand) and the newer academic toy languages
(on the other hand).

I'd say the obvious choices are Python and Go.  Go looks really good
to me.  Javascript is suddenly very trendy.  If you're tempted towards
PHP or C++ or the faux-portability of C#, go and lie down until the
feeling passes.

Just my opinion
-D.