[Chester LUG] which programming language

[David Holden]

On Thursday 24 May 2007, Richard Smedley wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > I was thinking Perl, but its just so "strange" or maybe Java. I'm not
> > really doing anything fancy but I really want to get coding. I did
> > some very very basic Java back at Uni, but its all forgotten now,
> > although I do remember about Objects, inheritance etc etc.
> >
> > Any advice ?
>
> I would agree with the posts advising Perl, Python or Ruby. If you find
> Perl ``strange'', then go for Ruby. It's v straightforward. However
> Python imposes a little more discipline of thought, and seems far
> more logical.

 dangerous ground Richard:) Next you will be saying you prefer emacs to vi

Dave.



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