[sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

[Jason Proctor]

If you're arguing that, then I'd argue that the BASIC hurt more than you
realise ;-)

(I learned programming with ZX81 BASIC.)

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:27 AM Pete Hartman <pete.hartman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I learned programming in BASIC, which I'd argue is a whole lot closer to
> perl and ruby than Java or C, and it didn't really hurt ;)
>
> Pete
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 1:15 PM Jason Proctor <jason at redfish.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 7:06 AM Ingo Debus <igg.debus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Actually, Java and C are very similar, so if you have learned one of
>>> them and use the other later, learning the first was not a waste of time.
>>>
>>>
>> Java and C are only peripherally similar - in the way you do things, Java
>> and C++ are much more related - but I maintain that you can't lose by
>> learning a language (unless it's Perl or Ruby, cheeky grin). IME, the more
>> languages you know, the easier it is to learn new ones.
>>
>>
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