On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
> 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? I would recommend Python <www.python.org>.
