In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "gregarican" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here are a few languages I recommend most programmers should at least > have a peek at: > > 1) Smalltalk - The original object oriented programming language. > Influenced anything from Mac/Windows GUI to Java language. Terse, clean > syntax. IDE rolled into an operating system rolled into a set of core > libraries. > 2) Lisp - Along with FORTRAN, one of the oldest programming languages > still in use. Pure functional programming model that is extensible and > has many derivatives. Great for mathematical purposes. Easy to learn if > you can get past all of the nested parenthesis :-) > 3) C - The "Latin" of modern programming languages. Used in low level > tasks (e.g. - hardware drivers) as well as larger projects (e.g. - > operating systems and other programming languages). Logcal, explicit > flow albeit a bit wordy. > > I have worked in C and Smalltalk for awhile now and just starting to > pickup Lisp. Knowing different languages can help you approach problems > with a fresh perspective. I prefer to code in Ruby and Python but can > use these languages a certain way given the angles I have picked up > elsewhere... I would add to that list PostScript. Most people think of it as just format for print files, but it's a a real general-purpose programming language, and a cool one at that (with an clear similarity to FORTH). The stack-based paradigm can be a bit mind bending if you're not used to it, but bending your mind is the whole point of learning something new. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
