From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 21:52:33 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 8AF8E37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:52:32 -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 99C3943FBD for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:52:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1045115547.7d50c4@mired.org) Received: (qmail 26088 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2003 05:52:27 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 8 Feb 2003 05:52:27 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15940.39707.55965.640089@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 23:52:27 -0600 To: northern snowfall Cc: questions@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages In-Reply-To: <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net> References: <200302072309.AA423166622@altima.net> <15940.38588.692767.171995@guru.mired.org> <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net> 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 <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net>, northern snowfall typed: > >>what are the bbest three languages to learn? > C, java and as many flavors of ASM as possible =) You're being redundant. C is just a portable ASM. Java is just a slow portable ASM. Either one should be enough for even the most jaded masochist. How about Scheme, Eiffel and CAML? Scheme because the worlds best CS textbook - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman and Sussman - uses it. Eiffel because the worlds best OO programming book - Object Oriented Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer - uses it, and CAML because every programmer should be exposed to FP at least once. How about HTML, XML and WML? Seriously, this is just idle speculation until the OP bothers to tell us what he intends to use the knowledge for. 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