From: Rodrigo Bermejo Date: 2008-05-29T03:55:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Should I Learn Ruby as a First Language? Mike Kasick wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:45:00PM +0900, MRH wrote: > > I usually lump beginner programmers into one of two categories, (i) > those > who want to become expert programmers for purposes of education, > profession, or hobby, and (ii) those who are interested in learning how > to > program sufficiently enough to make work in their primary careers > easier, > but don't necessarilly have a specific interest in programming itself. > > If you're of the former category, I would say it doesn't really matter > what > lanaguage you learn first since you will inevitably learn multiple > languages anyways. Remember that a master programmer is not someone who > expertly understands the minutiae of any single language, but rather is > someone who is proficient in many languages. This is largely due to the > fact that all programming languages seek to achieve that same high-level > goal--enable programmers to use a machine to perform computation--and > yet > time Perl was much more so, but I wouldn't consider any beneift in > greater > popularity of Perl to be worth the pain of having to deal with it's > obtuseness. Excellent answer ! Aplausos !! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.