From: Thomas Wieczorek <wieczo.yo@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T07:55:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Learn how to program

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 8:09 PM, longint <michael.mello@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I don't think I would recommend a dynamically typed language like
>  Ruby.  Maybe something like C#, Java, or VB.NET as a first language.
>

Yeah, start with Java or C#, you will be in heaven when you get back to Ruby ;)
Fun aside, I think Ruby is a good language to get started. You don't
have to create too much boilerplate code, you can solve a simple
problem simply and the community is awesome. Nearly all questions on
the list here are answered quite quickly. There's no "Eww, a n00b!"