Re: OT - trivial programming language

[richard lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Friday 21 May 2004 18:56, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> richard lyons wrote:
> > I'm asking for a bit of advice here.
[...]
> > learning one of the lighter languages that I keep seeing mention
> > of. So the question is, which do you people recommend?
[...]
>
> A lot of languages are suited for this. A really easy language to
> learn is
> Python. There is also php, java and so on.

php is really for talking to a webserver, which is unnecessary for the 
kind of things I have in mind.  Java... hmmm... I keep seeing mention 
of Ruby, but have no idea what its strengths are.  Perl seems 
overqualified - even though I have played with it a bit.  

> But if i where you i would first
> have a look at Python.

That makes two votes for Python (the other was off-list).  I've had it 
in mind to find time to investigate Python -- so I'll have a go at 
that.

Thanks for the input.

-- 
richard