Re: Programming first steps.
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 04:40:36PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:45:51PM +0800, David Palmer wrote:
>
> > (1) What is the best language to start with?
>
> I'd say it depends why you cant to learn programming. If you want to
> hack on the programs written by others, C will pretty much be imposed
> to you sooner or later, and I don't have much good advice to offer.
>
> If it is all about the intellectual journey, definitely take a
> functional, higher-order, statically typed language. OCaml has my
> heart (and the package ocaml-book-en contains what you think it does),
> but I've heard great things about Haskell. Scheme is fun, but for a
> first language, the type-checking of OCaml / Haskell should help.
I suggest you start with Standard ML if you are going down the functional
route. After-all its what *real* *working* programmers use. [1]
Cheers,
Rob
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Rob 'robster' Bradford
http://robster.org.uk
[1] - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/lcp/MLbook/index.html
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