Re: [Nolug] Introducing myself

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 04:27:51PM -0600, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
> Python is not a scripting language.

You're right. It's a mode of thought (there's only one way to do it) that I find personally offensive. I am much more in favor of Perl's philosophy, which advocates the many ways to do things.

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> MS-DOS? :) Ewww!

I assumed this meant BASIC, which isn't that terrible of an environment in which to learn.

> Besides, how fast do you need a loop to run? Shouldn't C be more then
> good enough these days? :)

You have too much faith in the optimizing abilities of compilers :)...

Brett

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> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > On 12/06/08 14:41, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
> >>
> >> I would be happy to help you grok python(1). Or really, anything for
> >> that matter.
> >>
> >> There are plenty of ways to get your app running in android. What
> >> types of apps are you looking to dev?
> >>
> >> I am going to completely disagree with you that PHP is a good first
> >> language. It is sloppy, and full of horrendous examples. Python is a
> >> much better language to learn on. I suggest to my interns that they
> >> learn python first. C# second (# particularly because of mono and the
> >> semantics that go along with it). And then branch off from there. Of
> >> course, that is only a suggestion to them.
> >
> > Python is a great learning scripting language, but new programmers *need* to
> > know the hardware. Assembly programming, preferably in MS-DOS or CP/M,
> > would be best.
> >
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> >
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