programming languages
Mike Coleman
mkc+dated+1028946720.76f40f at mathdogs.com
Fri Jul 26 02:19:13 CDT 2002
"J. Eric Gilliland" <patzeric at yahoo.com> writes:
> So, here is a question. Keep in mind that I am a
> non-programmer who does not work in the field at all. If I
> was going to learn one language, simply to play around with
> and for my own edification, which language should I learn?
What are you interested in learning about? If you want to learn about all of
the low-level practical nuts and bolts of how computers work, you might start
with C. Someone mentioned assembler, which would also give you this, but is
not a particularly good place to start.
If you want to learn about the theory of computation, high-level things, and
be able to quickly write interesting programs, I'd suggest Python. Or perhaps
Lisp.
Mike
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