On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote: > I don't. If I want to get started in a language, I might well want to > read about it a bit, and maybe ask questions like "what is a good book > for me to start with?" > > If I have to know the language to do that, well... >
When I start with a language, I want two things: a compiler/interpreter, and online documentation. (A book would be equivalent to the latter, but I tend to prefer to read things online.) Asking questions comes later; first, I want to get a comprehension for the language's features. By the time I join a list like this, I want to be able to understand the answers I get. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list