From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-04-25T09:55:24+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and C


On Apr 24, 2007, at 12:42 AM, John Joyce wrote:

> get the book by Chris Pine, Learn to Program.
Chris Pine's book, I must say, is rather great. He teaches you one  
things at a time, and explains everything thoroughly. You could learn  
a lot of Ruby from that book in two days. I did.

> But learning C is a good goal too. It really is the Latin of  
> computer languages. Many ideas and traditions come out of decades  
> of C culture.
Anyone know much about D? It's an alternative to C, with cleaned up  
syntax and garbage collection. There are a lot of other features,  
too, but I don't know them. Check it out if you're even slightly  
interested.

> That said, either way you'll be fine, but get yourself a good text  
> editor which does colors and (if possible) auto completion.
For macs, Aquamacs is an amazing TE. It's free (not sure if it's open  
source), and has coloring (from the themes) and auto-tabbing (Ctrl- 
Alt-Backslash). By far my favorite text editor. There's also  
TextMate, but I haven't used it yet.

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~Ari
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