OT: Learning programming languages
- Posted by jxliv7 <jxliv7 at hotmail.com> Apr 12, 2007
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Here's an interesting (and perhaps opinionated) article on learning programming languages today -- which ones when, why, and so on: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/education/introductory-language/ Way back when I was first getting my digital feet wet TTYs, tape drives, and mainframes were king and everybody spoke Fortran, COBOL, and maybe Algol. C wasn't really invented back then, but it had an interesting history about that time: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html And for those that want to see the value of Euphoria, take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language) All this brings me up to a question, where is Euphoria going? If the future of computing is multiple cores, 64 or 128 bit processors, easy GUIs for users, and managing data, shouldn't Euphoria be thinking ahead...? Happy coding... -- jon