Romain Lerallut wrote:
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> Usually, you choose a language depending on what you want done. YMMV.
yes, that's most important - depending on what you will do/what
interests you, choose appropriate language...
in general, go for design/analysis not for particular language -
programming is fairly abstract science/art/magic...
> 1) start with interpreted languages, such as Perl. ( not Python which is
> strongly object-oriented). It's easy to create a proglet that is useful , and
> very satisfying.
>
> 2a) then learn about object-oriented languages (Java, Python). I would advise
> *against* starting with an OO language, since it *might* be harder to come
> back to
> non-OO languages.
I'd say it's the other way around - learn OO first and use it, even if
the language does not support it. never go back to straight structural
programming...
> 2b) then learn about compiled languages such as C. C is harder to program
> than interpreted languages, mostly because of memory management issues, but
> it is also IMHO very elegantly written.
learn C++ where you don't have to deal with memory that much and you
have lot of fairly convenient data types/structures/containers that take
care of themselves (strings, arrays etc.)
you might also try java but I find it quite simplistic and messy (just
learning it so my opinion is not very authoritative)
erik
