[oclug] Easiest and most usefull language to learn?

[Francis Pinteric]

--- Tom Goulet <tomg at nova.yi.org> wrote:
> [ 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>
> 

One of the idiocynchrasies of this language is the lack of braces and
the use of white space as punctuation. After 25-odd years of {} and
'begin;end' or 'do;end' it took some effort for me to refrain from
wanting to add these extra items.


I rather like Python and I think it's got a great future. Besides, I
rather like the idea that the inventor created it in his spare time
and named it after Monty Python.  That's the true hacker spirit.

>>>---fja->
>>>--fja->

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"However dazzling and dauting (the technologist's) display
of worldly wisdom, their true inspiration lies elsewhere,
in an enduring, otherworldly quest for transcendence and
salvation" - David F. Noble, "The Religion of Technology"

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