python, perl, lisp, tcl / got a decision to make, can you give me a view point please ? and a joke for python users :)

[Yvon Boulianne]

Hello,  i'm a bit confused with so many language ;-)
theres the story, i like to learn a programming language for 2 reasons
1- i want to be able to make some script on my web site (i heard about
zope, don't know what it have to do with python)

2- i want to learn to keep my mind trained, i'm a mystic and i want to
make this mental grow in ability ;-)

so i read about these language, i know a bit of perl and tcl, (i find
perl too much cryptics, difficult to understand other people scripts)
and for tcl i find it too much simple at my taste,  i also find tcl
unclear to read, it's like reading a bunch of chinese sometimes ;-)

so do you think that python can be a good choice or maybe another one
? i am presently downloading python to try some example, maybe it will
fix my mind but i doubt it,  i haven't enough experiences to compare
subject as complicated as computer languages.

oh, theres a joke i found on a website, maybe it will make some of you
laugh ;-)

EXTERIOR: DAGOBAH -- DAY      With Yoda strapped to his back, Luke
climbs up one of the   many thick vines that grow in the swamp until
he reaches the   Dagobah statistics lab. Panting heavily, he continues
his   exercises -- grepping, installing new packages, logging in as
root, and writing replacements for two-year-old shell scripts   in
Python.

YODA: Code!  Yes.  A programmer's strength flows from code
maintainability. But beware of Perl.  Terse syntax... more than one
way to do it... default variables.  The dark side of code
maintainability are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you when
code you write.  If once you start down the dark path, forever will it
dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

LUKE: Is Perl better than Python?

YODA: No... no... no.  Quicker, easier, more seductive.

LUKE: But how will I know why Python is better than Perl?

YODA: You will know.  When your code you try to read six months from
now.
 

Thanks verry much for the time you took to read me.
Yvon.
Yvon Boulianne ; Saphi
mysticsguy at yahoo.ca
www.monunivers.net
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