Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?

Ed Keith e_d_k at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 23 09:22:35 EDT 2010


--- On Wed, 6/23/10, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com>
> Subject: Re: Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 1:39 AM
> 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>
> 
> > really invigorating. And I also second learning a
> functional language
> > (though I don't know if I'd inflict Haskell on
> anyone).
> >
> 
>     Is APL still available?
>         4 5 $rho 20 ? 52
> (using a common means for lack of greek keyboard)
> -- 
>     Wulfraed       
>          Dennis Lee
> Bieber         AF6VN
>         wlfraed at ix.netcom.com 
>   HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
> 
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> 
Try J. It does not require a special keyboard.

    -EdK

Ed Keith
e_d_k at yahoo.com

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