On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:52:14 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yedidyah Bar-David) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:25:58AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > > Quoting Tzafrir Cohen, from the post of Wed, 26 Jan: > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:28:12PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > > > > first also makes people use c++ as a functional language instead of as an OO > > > > language. > > > > > > Just to get the terminology right: I figure you meant "procedural". > > > > every 9-12 months, this argument about the best first language comes up. > > half of the people arguing with opinions they won't gudge from and half > > trying to throw in half-knowledgable remarks to show they too exist, and > > never does anyone agree. > > > > so allow me to add to the tradition! Python, gentlemen! it can be OO or > > Procedural (and even pure functional I was once told). the syntax is > > clean, very little syntactic sugar, no odd compilersyntax for a newbie > > to learn, richer than Java, clearer than C and C++, and more widely used > > in the practical world than Pascal or LISP. > > And, may I add, has a nice, free book, called "Learning with Python". > Maybe not as deep as "Structure and Interpretation ...", but not bad > either. > Notice that "Structure and Interpretation ..." is not a lisp book, it used lisp as a tool. Will have to look at learning python though, always wondered if its going to be useful enough for me to spend the time learning, although I think that for my work I am stuck with matlab and c (really don't feel like learning fortran at this point ;-) > > > > Now get ready to rumbooooooooooooollllll! > > Did you mean "Rambo", or "Rebol"? I am sure you'll find people that will > be in favour of Rebol as a first language. > :-) > -- > Didi > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
