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

["Gabe Turner (officer)" <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

Actually, I'd agree with this.  I once had to program a quicksort in MIPS
assembly.  Yes, it required I do recursion in assembly.  It was far from
fun... I don't think I really _understood_ recursion til I did that :)
I also learned that programmng, behind the scenes, is just a bunch of
gotos... How reassuring.

Gabe

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:42:57PM -0500, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> 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
> > mailto:jsc@themes.org
> > http://kde.themes.org
> > 
> > ----- 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?
> > 
> > 
> > > 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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Gabe Turner				       |  	   X-President,
UNIX Systems Administrator,		       | Assoc. for Computing Machinery
U of M Supercomputing Institute for	       |    Univerisity of Minnesota
Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation    |       dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu

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