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

DiCioccio, Jason jdicioccio at epylon.com
Tue Aug 13 10:13:07 PDT 2002


 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Sobolak [mailto:sobolak at myrealbox.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 8:41 AM
> To: buug at weak.org
> Subject: Re: Re: [buug] Who's this kid from San Diego? (Me)
> 
> Ian wrote:
> >Not trying to play boss, learn what you enjoy, but to me this is
> >sad. People of your generation _really_ should start by learning a
> >better language. 
> 
> >Ocaml is free (beerwise _and_ speechwise), available for all common
> >platforms (including Windows and Mac), and has a book 
> written about it:
> 
> Start by learning a functional programming lanugage?  What 
> would be your argument for that as opposed to something more 
> mainstream, say Python?

Once you learn a good OO language (or even an somewhat inconsistent one
like Python), you'll probably not willingly learn C/C++ ;-).. I
personally find C quite painful now.  The most C I do now is attempting
to provide ruby wrappers around C libraries.  At least Ruby's C API
makes it more tolerable.

I might argue that it's good to get C out of the way early, as it's
still very handy to know.  I would imagine myself having difficulting
going back and learning C after delving into languages like ruby. 
However, I'm still very glad I know it as it comes in handy quite a
bit.

Although I have enjoyed Cocoa (which is Objective-C) :)

Cheers,
- -JD-

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