About programing, a general question

[Joep L. Blom]

On 17/12/10 14:30, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com
> <mailto:clanlaw at googlemail.com>> wrote:
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>     I think though that for starting Python might well be better.  You
>     will more rapidly be able to write code that does something useful I
>     think.  Once you have picked up the basics with one language then the
>     second one is much easier.
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> Yes I came to this conclusion. Your advice is good.
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>
>     Referring back to previous posts, Algol is of course the mother of all
>     languages, not Fortran.
>
>     Colin
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> Algol okay, but some dude told Fortran, whatever be but it seems to me
> to either go for Python (majority of the people suggests) or C/C++, that
> is for sure.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Parshwa Murdia
>
Sorry, Colin,
Beg to differ. FORTRAN was developed by IBM engineers in the 50ies while 
ALGOL is developed in the 60ties (therefore: ALGOL60).
Joep