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Anytime in the afternoon after 1300 is OK.

I shall be there.

No love for Osaka. Bummer.

Japanese & Korean.

A poorly thought out point: a defensive move against the whole company folding due to some reason?

My understanding is that it is a tool for use with a very niche market: 3D CAD in a budget. I would think that such a use is not in their roadmap.

Here is my take:

If you are just going to learn a programming language, there is still plenty of competition. Instead, I would suggest that you build a web-based product. It involves a lot of moving parts that you will get familiar with. It is quite an arduous task.

Don't focus on the tool (programming language); instead, step back a little bit, see the bigger picture and build something with that tool. People are much more appreciate of such efforts.

Edit: In case you need some hand holding in the initial stages, I am more than willing to help.

Off-topic: women is plural while woman is singular.

Is there a way you can collect browser stats? You should be able to pull something from the server logs. Once you have done that, take a look at them numbers and you will have a fair idea on what your userbase prefers. If I see something like 50% of IE7, I would think that it's a good business decision to support IE7 development if my bread and butter depends on that.

I was able to augment Pimsleur's Japanese tapes with some reading to crack the old Level 4 of Japanese Language Proficiency Test. It was a very good starting point. Worked well for me I would say.

sqlite and postgres are often regarded as projects with good, clean style.

You are correct. From what I could gather from reading that write-up, "size" is used to mean the magnitude of a number.

What happened?

A visual language called G exists. It is forms the backbone of LabVIEW (a product of National Instruments [NI]). You could use it like any other programming language to solve problems. IMHO it is quite powerful. However, LabVIEW's real strength lies in providing an easy interface for data acquisition from cards, again by NI, specifically built for the purpose. LabVIEW is pretty much ubuquitous in university labs.

Edit: There is also Agilent VEE.