On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Mike Meyer wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> other than haskell and SQL, the others are more or less the same to me >> so getting familiar with them is not too difficult. > > There are actually lots of good "train your brain" type languages. > Members of the LISP family, for instance, to learn what you can do with > lists, and also for how cool a real macro facility can be. I happen to > like Scheme, but that's just me.
I haven't actually done anything much in any LISP, but Scheme definitely looks like a winner to me - single namespace, generally cleaned-up language and library, etc. tom -- For one thing at least is almost certain about the future, namely, that very much of it will be such as we should call incredible. -- Olaf Stapledon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list