2014/10/28 4:51 "Andrei POPESCU" <[email protected]>: > > On Vi, 24 oct 14, 22:59:11, Joel Rees wrote: > > > > Are you interested in learning programming? > > I've had some classes about basics of programing (using BASIC as > example) and I even started going through some Python tutorial once, but > never got too far. I guess I don't want it badly enough at the moment ;)
Why those two? Python is just BASIC done right. Plus an interesting idea about using whitespace instead of brace symbols to open and close blocks, which could be said to be part of doing BASIC right. You like REs, so perl might be interesting. But the syntax is not awk or sed syntax, so maybe not. Haskell might feel comfortable, since it's declarative/functional instead of imperative/procedural. I personally like FORTH, but it is definitely an acquired taste, so I won't recommend it to you . LISP, on the other hand, other than the standardization problem, may be just what you're looking for. I've noticed that the languages people consider themselves most comfortable with tend to be congruent with certain aspects about their points of view on the world around them. Neither something to criticize nor something to praise, but something that ends up also coloring the conversations I have with them. Being acquainted with a lot of languages is a useful thing. -- Joel Rees _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
