On Vi, 14 nov 14, 21:35:17, Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/10/28 4:51 "Andrei POPESCU" <andreimpope...@gmail.com>: > > > > I've had some classes about basics of programing (using BASIC as > > example) and I even started going through some Python tutorial once, but > > never got too far. I guess I don't want it badly enough at the moment ;) > > Why those two? Didn't have a choice on the first one, it was what the teacher was using, and probably the most accessible at the time given the hardware and software available in that university.
> Python is just BASIC done right. Plus an interesting idea about using > whitespace instead of brace symbols to open and close blocks, which > could be said to be part of doing BASIC right. > > You like REs, so perl might be interesting. But the syntax is not awk > or sed syntax, so maybe not. Like? Not really. Sometimes they are just the right tool for the job. > Haskell might feel comfortable, since it's declarative/functional > instead of imperative/procedural. Sounds interesting indeed. > I personally like FORTH, but it is definitely an acquired taste, so I > won't recommend it to you . LISP, on the other hand, other than the > standardization problem, may be just what you're looking for. > > I've noticed that the languages people consider themselves most > comfortable with tend to be congruent with certain aspects about their > points of view on the world around them. Neither something to > criticize nor something to praise, but something that ends up also > coloring the conversations I have with them. Being acquainted with a > lot of languages is a useful thing. Probably the same as with spoken languages. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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