Re:I am ready to learn a new code set. Whats the best langua...
by mechanical_fish on Monday November 24, 2008 @07:27PM
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What do you want to build?
Ruby or Python is good. Just pick one. Flip a coin. Or do what I did: I picked the one that _Why's book was about, and that proved to be a very amusing way to choose:
Also good, but for different things: Scheme (as learned from SICP), C, Objective C, Java (so that you'll know what everyone else is complaining about).
Ruby or Python is good. Just pick one. Flip a coin. Or do what I did: I picked the one that _Why's book was about, and that proved to be a very amusing way to choose:
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
(See also: http://hacketyhack.net/ and http://shoooes.net/ .)
Also good, but for different things: Scheme (as learned from SICP), C, Objective C, Java (so that you'll know what everyone else is complaining about).