gregarican wrote: > Here are a few languages I recommend most programmers should at least > have a peek at: > > 1) Smalltalk - The original object oriented programming language. > Influenced anything from Mac/Windows GUI to Java language. Terse, clean > syntax. IDE rolled into an operating system rolled into a set of core > libraries. Simula actually is the "original o-o language (as Smalltalk's authors freely admit).
> 2) Lisp - Along with FORTRAN, one of the oldest programming languages > still in use. Pure functional programming model that is extensible and > has many derivatives. Great for mathematical purposes. Easy to learn if > you can get past all of the nested parenthesis :-) The functional style is not what was unique to LISP. LISP was the first language whose behavior was fully specified before it was implemented (and that definition was completely machine-independent). > 3) C - The "Latin" of modern programming languages. Used in low level > tasks (e.g. - hardware drivers) as well as larger projects (e.g. - > operating systems and other programming languages). Logcal, explicit > flow albeit a bit wordy. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
