From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T01:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns

Kaldrenon wrote:
> Yet another male (Maybe YAM will replace YAPH some day? *sigh*)
> 
> age: 19
> 
> background: BASIC, Visual Basic, the scripting language included in
> TI-83 Plus graphing calculators, C++, Java
> 
> Presently learning: Perl and Ruby, with plans to learn Lisp, Lua, and
> Ada. My goal is to become a true polyglot.
Unless there's a financial reason, I'd skip Perl and focus on Ruby. And
Scheme is probably a better tutorial language than (Common) Lisp. Check
out "Dr. Scheme", for example.