[jug-discussion] tasks that developers do when learning a new language?

2007-04-21 Thread Warner Onstine
Hi all, I was just curious, when you start learning a new language, what do try and do first? Here are some of the ones that I look at: - looping (how do I do a for loop) - if, then, else - switches (do they exist?) - object and array creation (what types are there and how do I do it) In a

Re: [jug-discussion] tasks that developers do when learning a new language?

2007-04-21 Thread Todd Ellermann
We have been doing a bunch of research with different languages, and things that come up: How to talk to a database? Conditionals Loops how to package stuff (CPAN for perl, Jar's for Java, Gem's for Ruby) Concatenation Strings especially Variable Declaration Scope Object Definition and