And in case you hadn't heard enough suggestions yet, here's something I just stumbled into this morning:
Programming Paradigms for Dummies, by Peter Norvig http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3465 Here's a portion of the soundbite from the website (where you can download the PDF): "This chapter gives an introduction to all the main programming paradigms, their underlying concepts, and the relationships between them. We give a broad view to help programmers choose the right concepts they need to solve the problems at hand. We give a taxonomy of almost 30 useful programming paradigms and how they are related. Most of them differ only in one or a few concepts, but this can make a world of difference in programming." Having skimmed a few pages, I'm not sure I'd say this is your average "Dummies" book, but it appears to provide a bird's eye view of how different languages are geared to solve different kinds of problems. Might bring the landscape into sharper relief before you settle on that next language. HTH! Serdar _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
