[buug] Who's this kid from San Diego? (Me)

[Ian Zimmerman]

itz> Not trying to play boss, learn what you enjoy, but to me this is
itz> sad.  People of your generation _really_ should start by learning
itz> a better language.

itz> Ocaml is free (beerwise _and_ speechwise), available for all
itz> common platforms (including Windows and Mac), and has a book
itz> written about it:

Brian> Start by learning a functional programming lanugage?  

I would certainly not be the first to propose that.  "Structure and
implementation of computer languages" which is widely used in CS101
courses is based on Scheme.

Brian> What would be your argument for that as opposed to something
Brian> more mainstream, say Python?

Type safety.

You don't have to use ocaml as a functional language; it has a full
imperative subset.

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