From: MRH <mauriceroman@...>
Date: 2008-05-29T20:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Should I Learn Ruby as a First Language?

Tobias:

Thank you for your reply.

> I learned by doing, in perl, and think it worked well

I agree, and plan on using that approach.

> You'll have to learn more than one language anyway

Quite true, and I plan on a few . . . I am just debating which one to
try first . . .

> Educationally Python might make more sense since it has less syntax (no
> blocks)

I will keep that in mind.

> But my real advice is to find a problem you really care about, than look
> which language has the best library for it, and go with that. You won't
> learn anything from example code in books.

Had also planned on this.

Cheers,

Maurice