Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?

Stephen Hansen me+list/python at ixokai.io
Wed Jun 23 01:51:33 EDT 2010


On 6/22/10 10:39 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:55:51 -0700, Stephen Hansen
> <me+list/python at ixokai.io> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
> 
>> I second Forth. Learning and using that was -- slightly painful, but
> 
> 	Just pick up any advanced HP programmable calculator... RPL is a
> close substitute <G>

That's just a start. The reverse and stack-oriented nature of the
language makes you have to start thinking in an interesting way, and
sure, a RPL/stack-calculator can get that for you.

But then going on and doing real programming with it, making your own
words (functions), ... its fun.

-- 

   Stephen Hansen
   ... Also: Ixokai
   ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io
   ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/

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