[geeks] Introductory programming language?

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed Aug 31 20:35:23 CDT 2011


On 08/31/11 19:12, Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:
> My cousin is a pretty bitchin' coder[1]. I can barely hack my way out
> of a perl script and use perl and expect when I need to; I'm far more
> of a sysadmin type and now do more security stuff. A while back I
> asked him what he'd suggest to "learn programming." His take was that
> we should not use Java, C++ or other OO stuff as a primary tool for
> learning, as it's too complex. He said use Python.

...Which is OO.



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