On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:01:35 +0100, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote: > > >>You can start with any language. For a complete beginner, I would advocate > >>Scheme. Even if you don't want to do big projects in Scheme, you can start > >>very fast. A good book on programming (using Scheme) is Structure and > >>Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson/Sussman. > > I don't know, I think if there were a language to start newbies out on, > it is perl. Don't have to worry about many of the things that other > languages force upon you yet gives you a good gounding in how those other > languages work.
How does Python rate as a beginners language?
