Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 10:26:48 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1045115547.7d50c4@mired.org> Cc: northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net>, chat@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages Message-ID: <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com> References: <200302072309.AA423166622@altima.net> <15940.38588.692767.171995@guru.mired.org> <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net> <15940.39707.55965.640089@guru.mired.org>
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[Redirected to chat, becuase ... well, you know] Mike Meyer wrote: > In <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net>, northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net> 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. Anything with pointers in it is enough for this massochist. But I don't disagree. > 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? I'm surprised that you consider these "languages". I lump then in the catagory of "data formats". I've even seen some people call them "protocols" as they resemble that more than a language. > Seriously, this is just idle speculation until the OP bothers to tell > us what he intends to use the knowledge for. It's odd that we haven't heard from him since the first post. Someone else speculated that he was trying to start a long-winded conversation, and I suspect that may be the case. Not that I mind, but it doesn't belong on questions@. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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