Book recommendation please

[Geoff]

On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 15:55:19 +0000, Cameron Laird wrote:

> To congratulate you on your insight that worthwhile languages need not
> be compiled (in the usual sense), let me reinforce it:  Python (and
> other high-level languages) have a record of achievement that compares
> favorably to those of C++, Java, ... in every way, apart from marketing.
> ...

Thanks, it is remarkable how quickly one's views can change.  To take
another example, I began by thinking that the interpreter could onlly be a
toy and that any useful "five finger exercises" I might write would
inevitably need to be in a script.  Wrong again ...

Regards,

Geoff