On 2007-06-21 14:33, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: >> I have a cousin who's taking up a programming course. He doesn't have >> background with programming nor an in depth understanding of how the >> computer works. [...] > > [snip excellent material by Oliver] > At university there was a teacher who said that you should learn as > many different programming languages as possible, at least one of > every kind, i.e. one of the "classical brace languages", such as C, at > least one object-oriented language (e.g. Smalltalk, Eiffel), one > functional language (Haskell or OCaml), one assembly language (no > matter which one) and so on. The more the better.
After years of working with several languages, and using at least five or seven of them in production code, I can't agree more. The particular professor definitely knew what he was talking about :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"