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Re: [TCLUG:13004] AP Comp. Sci.



Timothy Wilson <wilson@visi.com> writes:

> On 28 Jan 2000, Jon Schewe wrote:
> 
> > It is if you're trying to teach OO programming.  I learned C++ in college and
> > it was taught as an OO language and things just seemed backwards until I
> > leared a language that's closer to true OO, like Java.  Although I know
> > smalltalk is much better, it isn't used much outside of research.
> 
> I don't mean to preach here, but you should have a look at Python. The
> language is super clean, great OO, and is practical. Look at Zope. That's
> a Python-based product that is getting huge.

Is there a particular place that would be good to start learning the language?
Currently I'm heavily into Java and perl, but I'm always interested in more languages.

-- 
Jon Schewe 
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