From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 13:43:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DB337B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:43:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0829D43F85 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:43:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1046036590.5cbb90@mired.org) Received: (qmail 49281 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2003 21:43:10 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 18 Feb 2003 21:43:10 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15954.43245.853110.590250@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:43:09 -0600 To: IAccounts Cc: matrix@altima.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question In-Reply-To: <20030218162019.V75422-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> References: <200302181602.AA349831898@altima.net> <20030218162019.V75422-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.69 (Count Fleet) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030218162019.V75422-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca>, IAccounts typed: > I would play with perl as it is easy and does not need to be compiled. > Then move on to the much more powerful c++ I would play with Python because it comes with an interactive shell, which makes it a lot of fun to play with. The problem with that is people who learn Python first have trouble finding motivation to learn C++. Again, this all depends on what you want to do with the language. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message