SEE: Top 5 programming languages for systems admins to learn (free PDF) (TechRepublic) If you’re excited by the data and logic side of coding, you may wish to learn Python, Java, C, C++ or C#.

The C programming language has been alive and kicking since ... Projects that demand top-tier performance—like databases and machine learning systems—are frequently written in C++, using ...

Bouchard / Dartmouth College Today, Kurtz is blunt about criticism of the language he co-created as being insufficiently serious or a dangerous way to begin learning about computer programming.