Actually, I'd agree with this. I once had to program a quicksort in MIPS assembly. Yes, it required I do recursion in assembly. It was far from fun... I don't think I really _understood_ recursion til I did that :) I also learned that programmng, behind the scenes, is just a bunch of gotos... How reassuring. Gabe On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:42:57PM -0500, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote: > Start with assembler. Pay your dues. I guarantee anything else will seem > easy afterwards. (This is from the "if it doesn't kill you it will make > you stronger" school of thought. ;) > > Phil M > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Cook, Justin S. wrote: > > > java bad, c/c++/insert any other language here, good. > > </shot_at_java> > > > > Justin Cook > > Themes.org Staff > > mailto:jsc at themes.org > > http://kde.themes.org > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com> > > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:25 PM > > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21269] Beginning - Language Perl or Python? > > > > > > > I learned to program in Perl, and it is by far my favorite > > > language - but I don't know if I would recommend it to start out. > > > > > > Sure, there are some fantastic books (Camel book, Learning Perl), > > > but I've found that I'm somewhat spoiled on it, making it very > > > difficult for me to easily program in other languages. Really powerful > > > things you can do in perl (like a hash of hashes) are much harder to > > > do in other languages. I'd recommend learning Java first, so you know > > > a "real" programming language - and then move onto Perl. > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > -- > Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Question with boldness even the existence of a god." - Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org