> It doesn't really matter what language you learn to program in to be honest!
Well, actually, it does. Some languages make certain techniques more or less impossible, and it's important to learn a variety of languages to get up to speed. Fortran is actually a good language for engineering and physics because of its strong consistency requirements for mathematical operations. > Learning the techniques how to program is the important thing, once you know > these you can easily switch between languages, although swapping from a > procedural language to an OOP one is as big a step as learning to program in > the first place. Or from a static to a dynamic, or from an opaque to a reflective one, or from a procedural to a declarative, or from a low level to a high level, or from ... > I suppose learning to program in Pascal/C/C++/C#/Java is that you are > actually learning a language that you can also use later on, not just the > techniques. I thought it was easy to pick up another language? Seriously, the best language to learn on is the one that best illustrates the techniques you're learning at that time. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
