Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 09:56:52 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20160701095652.17036e6fe1e467ee64adc9f7@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org>
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:52:43 -0400 Allen <bsd_atog@comcast.net> wrote: > Anyway, in all these years that have passed using FreeBSD and a bunch > of Linux distros, I never had time or patience enough to learn > Programming Languages, and I'm getting more and more to the part where > I'm thinking it's a good idea more so now than before. First off FreeBSD supports most programming languages from BASIC to Prolog by way of C, Smalltalk, LISP, Haskell and Forth among many others. Here's the thing - each of the languages I've listed is an example of a particular programming paradigm (there are many other examples of each paradigm). If your aim is to learn about programming in general then I would advise learning as many different paradigms as possible. If your aim is to do a bit of programming then pick a language - any language - and learn to write something useful. Python and Perl are both easy to learn OO/structured languages, python attempts to force good style, perl is more of an anything goes approach. Learn one and the other is easy to learn. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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