Re: What lang(s) to learn?

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From: Benny Shomer
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:00

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Dmitri Alperovitch (dmitri@cdc.net) wrote:
:-) >If you want to learn how to program, I suggest learning Pascal.  Pascal
:-) >may be dead, but it is easy to learn. Programs written in Pascal are
:-) >easy to translate into other languages like C, C++, Java, and Visual
:-) >Basic (Yuck).  In my opinion, what makes Pascal easy to learn is that
:-) >the keywords are straightforward English words.  Even if you haven't
:-) >written a program, you can get a general idea of what the program is
:-) >supposed to do.

:-) Well, if you are going to learn Pascal, I would suggest you go for Delphi 
:-) instead.  The language is very similar to Pascal's and it is much easier to 
:-) translate into Visual Basic because the structure of the language is almost 
:-) the same.  And it's a lot easier to do the basic GUI things with Delphi too.

:-) Dmitri
:-) dmitri@cdc.net

Oh, I guess you haven't yet seen Python. It is a GREAT(!!!) language and should
be rather easy for beginners, but it's very powerful.

Check http://www.python.org/

Benny.

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From: bshomer@ebi.ac.uk (Benny Shomer)
Subject: Re: What lang(s) to learn?
Date: 1997/03/11
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