From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2006-05-12T13:45:46+09:00
Subject: Re: conversion issues


On May 11, 2006, at 9:39 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:

>> But seriously, if you feel that Ruby doesn't work for you, check out
>> Python (http://www.python.org/) or maybe Perl (http://www.perl.org/)
>> or even Java (http://java.sun.com/). There are a lot of programming
>> languages out there, and it never hurts to give some of them a try.
>
>
> Noooo. If you are a new programmer learn lisp and smalltalk first. If
> somehow you decide that neither one of them are to your liking then
> learn python.
>
> You can safely skip perl and java :)

yeah. somehow learning C or Java or maybe *most* languages can cause  
"fear of parentheses". learn lisp *before* that happens!

don't be afraid:

((())))((()(())))))(()()()()()((((((((((((()))))))))))(((((((()()()() 
()()(()()))))))))))()()()(((((((()()))))))(((()))()))))

that wasn't so bad, was it? :)

-- Elliot Temple
http://www.curi.us/blog/