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Re:What programming language should I start with? by SwellJoe on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @04:13AM (#44694)
I found the opposite to be true. Objects in Python are uncomfortable for newbies, while they are very intuitive in Ruby. Both are fine learning languages, however.
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Re:What programming language should I start with? by euccastro on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @04:32AM (#44703)
What is uncomfortable about Python objects? If it's the explicit self in methods, that will only bother you if you come from a language that implicitly pollutes the local method namespace with that of the object.
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Re:What programming language should I start with? by snifty on Sunday August 26, 2007 @04:05AM (#46702)
Explicit self drove me bonkers with Python, and still does.
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