From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 8 7:27:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2769237B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:27:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA3D43F93 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:27:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h18FSXT5075309; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:28:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 10:26:48 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: northern snowfall , chat@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages References: <200302072309.AA423166622@altima.net> <15940.38588.692767.171995@guru.mired.org> <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net> <15940.39707.55965.640089@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Redirected to chat, becuase ... well, you know] Mike Meyer wrote: > In <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net>, northern snowfall typed: > >>>>what are the bbest three languages to learn? >>> >>C, java and as many flavors of ASM as possible =) > > You're being redundant. C is just a portable ASM. Java is just a slow > portable ASM. Either one should be enough for even the most jaded > masochist. Anything with pointers in it is enough for this massochist. But I don't disagree. > How about Scheme, Eiffel and CAML? Scheme because the worlds best CS > textbook - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by > Abelson, Sussman and Sussman - uses it. Eiffel because the worlds best > OO programming book - Object Oriented Software Construction by > Bertrand Meyer - uses it, and CAML because every programmer should be > exposed to FP at least once. > > How about HTML, XML and WML? I'm surprised that you consider these "languages". I lump then in the catagory of "data formats". I've even seen some people call them "protocols" as they resemble that more than a language. > Seriously, this is just idle speculation until the OP bothers to tell > us what he intends to use the knowledge for. It's odd that we haven't heard from him since the first post. Someone else speculated that he was trying to start a long-winded conversation, and I suspect that may be the case. Not that I mind, but it doesn't belong on questions@. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message