Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-04-08, Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>As for *learning* the languages: never learn a language >>without a specific inducement. > > That's silly. Learning (weather a computer language, a natural > language, or anything else) is never a bad thing. The more > languages you know, the more you understand about languages in > general. Learning languages is like any other skill: the more > you do it, the better you get at it.
I don't exactly see why this is a contradiction. "Specific inducement" does not necessarily mean that you have to have an external cause to learn a language -- be it your job or whatever. Nobody hinders you from creating that inducement yourself. It's just very hard to properly learn a language without having an idea what to do with it (in fact, I have seen people interested to learn programming utterly fail in doing so because they had absolutely no clue what to program). >>If you know you are going to write a Python extension, an >>Apache module, or a Linux kernel module in the near future, >>start learning C today. If you don't know what you want to use >>it for, learning it might be a waste of time, as you won't >>know what to look for if you don't have a specific project in >>mind. > > Geeze, when I think of all the things I've "wasted my time" > learning. Well, how many languages have you learnt without writing anything in them? Cheers, Carl Friedrich Bolz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
