From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T05:01:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 01:30:23AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 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.

Unless you're Ed, I wouldn't skip Perl.  I actually like the the
language.  Why limit yourself?

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