[Tutor] General Programming Question

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

At 1:26 PM -0700 6/26/01, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:
>What you need depends on what aspect(s) of programming you go into. 
>Regardless of what you ultimately choose, Python is a transparent 
>enough

Gah, I got interrupted mid-sentence again and forgot to go back and edit. Boo.

Python's syntax is transparent enough, and you can use it in enough 
different kinds of ways, that if you learned Python fully, you'd know 
how to do procedural programming (i.e. C, Fortran, Pascal), OO 
programming (Squeak, Smalltalk, Objective-C, and, to a lesser extent, 
C++ and Java), and Functional Programming (Lisp, Guile, ML).

Thus, a transition to any of those languages would be relatively easy.
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