On 12/16/06, john gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What would be the easiest programming language to learn? Important variables: (1) my technical knowledge of Linux is limited though I love the philosophy of openness and (2) I am 80 years old, so at my age 'simple' also implies 'soon'. Not being pessimistic about my life span, but a race is on.
It could depend on what kind of learner you are as well as what you want to do with it. I've found some languages I tried to use just didn't seem to work with my brain, but it could have had more to do with those helping me. The first program I wrote was two (human) player game of Go. I wrote it in Perl in a very simple but probably inefficient manner. I'm trying to learn Python now, because that's what a CMS I'm using is written in. I think Python, Perl, Java or PHP would probably be a good idea as they seem to be in fairly common use and can be used in a wide variety of environments, especially simple stuff. You could probably write a self scoring questionnaire very easily in HTML, but I don't know if that counts as programming :-) Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
