On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:40:31 -0500, HackingYodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all! I'm learning to program at home. I can't imagine a better > language than Python for this. The ideal situation, for me, would be to > study two languages at the same time. Probably sounds crazy, but it > works out better for me.
Me too, thats why my web tutorial features Python, VBSCript and Javascript. (The previous version had BASIC and Tcl with Python) > fascinating. C, D, Objective-C, Ocaml, C++, Lisp, how is a non-tech to > choose? Does any single language do a better job in Python's weaker > areas? C is better at low level stuff, Prolog is better at declaratie programming and Haskell is better at functional programming. Lisp/Scheme are good for giving a good theoretical understanding (try the SICP and HTDP web sites). And Tcl has a really different approach which is plain fun to grapple with :-) I chose VBScript and JavaScript because they have similar structure to Python (traditional imperative programming with OOP) but very different syntax. Plus they were free and easily available (albeit with VBScript limited to Windows users, who are 80+% of my visitors). Javascript is especially useful since its an easy lead in to learning C/C++, Java, even Perl to some extent and a lot of sample code sites use those languages. Alan G. Author of the Learn to Program website http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
