[oclug] Easiest and most usefull language to learn?

[Tom Goulet]

[ forgive munged references ]

Blashy - none - wrote:
> What would be the easiest language to learn AND that is at the same time a
> very usefull language in today's work place?

I'm adding my support to Python.

It is trivially easy to get started on:
python<enter>print "Hello, world!"<enter>

There is lots of documentation available at http://www.python.org/, and
even more at http://www.oreilly.com/.

Python would be a useful language in today's workplace because the
language is easy to learn straight to the point of writing useful,
constructive, and/or large programs.

That said, you'd be surprised what you can do in a shellscript.  :-)

TomG
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