> belt, then go ahead and learn anything else you like. But even then, if you > have > to learn two new ones at the same time, I'd recommend they be very unlike. > So you could learn Lisp or Forth at the same time as you were learning Ruby, > but > I'd not try to learn Perl and Python at the same time.
Actually that's a point. I favour learning two languages that are semantically similar buut syntactically different. Thats why I chose JavaScript and VBScript as my tutorial languages, because the syntax of each is so different you are less likely to get confused, but the underlying programming model is very similar in each case. So with Bob's illustration of the Harley in mind I'll withdraw the suggestion to learn Python and Ruby - because the syntax is very similar - but keep the Python/Lisp/Object Pascal ccombinations. Having said that I stll recommend that most folks learn one at a time. Unless you are the kind of person that actively prefers comparative study it will be better to keep to one language. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
