On Friday 21 May 2004 18:56, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > richard lyons wrote: > > I'm asking for a bit of advice here. [...] > > learning one of the lighter languages that I keep seeing mention > > of. So the question is, which do you people recommend? [...] > > A lot of languages are suited for this. A really easy language to > learn is > Python. There is also php, java and so on.
php is really for talking to a webserver, which is unnecessary for the kind of things I have in mind. Java... hmmm... I keep seeing mention of Ruby, but have no idea what its strengths are. Perl seems overqualified - even though I have played with it a bit. > But if i where you i would first > have a look at Python. That makes two votes for Python (the other was off-list). I've had it in mind to find time to investigate Python -- so I'll have a go at that. Thanks for the input. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]