About programing, a general question

[John D Lamb]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 22:29 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> If one has to start from the scratch, from the zeroth level to do the
> programing, which programing language one should start with?

It depends on what sort of programming you want to do. Java, Ruby and
Python are all good choices for getting started. You can create GUIs
reasonably quickly in Java. Lua is also a plausible beginner’s language.

Perl is perhaps more flexible but harder to learn than Python or Ruby.
Tcl/Tk is reasonably easy and lets you create simple GUIs. Basic is easy
but not used much in Linux, perhaps because it encourages poor
programming style.

C and C++ are powerful, fast and flexible, but big (especially C++) and
so not ideal beginner’s languages.

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JDL