On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Ryan Ware wrote: > I am interested in eventually learning one or both and would like to hear of > any personal experience with either on, or where you think it shines or > doesn't. One thing that might influence your decision is how much support you might get from the local programming community. If you think COBOLScript is the all-singing, all-dancing language of the Universe, fine, but when you're stuck you're stuck. :-) With that said, there's a lot of activity on the Mpls. Perl Mongers group. I can't speak for comparable Java/Python/C/C++ groups because I don't follow them. I'd recommend C for learning, then Java (for resume fluff) and Perl (for real work) once you've unlearned your worst habits. J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org