Re: [TCLUG:21269] Beginning - Language Perl or Python?

[Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>]

Start with assembler.  Pay your dues.  I guarantee anything else will seem
easy afterwards.  (This is from the "if it doesn't kill you it will make
you stronger" school of thought. ;)

Phil M

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Cook, Justin S. wrote:

> java bad, c/c++/insert any other language here, good.
> </shot_at_java>
> 
> Justin Cook
> Themes.org Staff
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>
> To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21269] Beginning - Language Perl or Python?
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> 
> > I learned to program in Perl, and it is by far my favorite
> > language - but I don't know if I would recommend it to start out.
> >
> > Sure, there are some fantastic books (Camel book, Learning Perl),
> > but I've found that I'm somewhat spoiled on it, making it very
> > difficult for me to easily program in other languages.  Really powerful
> > things you can do in perl (like a hash of hashes) are much harder to
> > do in other languages.  I'd recommend learning Java first, so you know
> > a "real" programming language - and then move onto Perl.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> 
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