[ubuntu-us-in] Time for a change

[Daniel Dunn]

It is never to late for someone with an idea/suggestion to speak their mind :)
 - Danny

On Nov 19, 2007 10:56 AM, John C. Meuser <meuserj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Even though the thread is about dead, I'll go ahead and insert my $0.02.
>
> Currently my favorite language is Ruby.  It has a very flexible syntax
> and just feels right to me.  It works great in a web framework (RoR) or
> as a general purpose scripting language.
>
> I've been meaning to learn a bit of python, and would probably love it
> for the same reasons that I love ruby (though the syntactically relevant
> white space is something that REALLY annoys me).  Python being so
> central to Ubuntu and having such a large number of add on libraries and
> bindings definitely are appealing aspects to it.  So I would probably
> recommend it.
>
> Even though I am a sysadmin, I hate Perl with a passion.  I've never
> really done anything with it, but the times that I've had to modify an
> existing Perl script, I've wanted to tear my hair out.  I just can't
> make heads or tails of Perl code.  If I sat down and learned it, I
> probably wouldn't hate it quite so much though.
>
> I have bad impressions of Java, but probably just because it was the
> language I learned with.  I'm probably just remembering the confusion I
> had learning how to program before I really understood the concepts.
>
> I've never done anything with C#.  There are a few little things I don't
> like about it.. things to prevent the programmer from shooting
> themselves in the foot, but have a use if you know what you are doing.
> Things like no fall-through for case statements, or no assignment
> operator inside an if statement.  I understand them trying to prevent
> common mistakes, but it would be nice if they allowed these things, but
> just threw up a compiler warning.
>
> My ultimate recommendation is to start with something easy which has
> lots of documentation and examples, such as Ruby or Python, and then
> keep learning new languages.  The more languages you learn, the easier
> it is to pick up another one.
>
>        John
>
>
> On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 15:08 +0000, Daniel Dunn wrote:
> > In my busy schedule of work, being a father, being a husband, and
> > trying to let people know about Ubuntu, I have decided to learn a
> > programming language. I learned VB in highschool, and i have dabbled
> > with different languages since then, but not hing serious. I was
> > wondering from the "Experts" what language would be a good start? I
> > would love to give back to the Ubuntu community by helping to code and
> > debug projects. I had been thinking about C#, but any recommendations
> > would be helpful.
> >
>
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