From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx0.inoc.net ([64.246.130.30]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kl3H-0001J0-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:06:47 -0500 Received: from hudson.valstar.net (cust124.usr1-gtown.valstar.net [64.246.150.253]) by mx0.inoc.net (Vircom SMTPRS 5.2.204) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:06:48 -0500 Received: from localhost (hallenbeck@localhost) by hudson.valstar.net (8.11.4/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g2CC6jd00631 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:06:45 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:06:45 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Hallenbeck To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: free programming language In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi Brian, On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Brian Borowski wrote: > There's so much choice, but the real thing is, you've got to have some > commitment and initiative to see the thing through; this is really the > important part of the whole thing. > > In my opinion, C is the ultimate, I like perl and java, (java when I need > to), but as someone else has said, the technique, not the language is > important. The skills like algorithm design and its implementation are > what you really have to learn, then you use the language to express your > ideas in something the machine can understand and work with. > > Brian Borowski I agree with these ideas completely. I guess the resources available to a student today are quite different and more powerful, allowing more choice, than they once were. Maybe I better reconsider my plug for Basic in the light of that. Chuck Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Crescent (2% of Full)