From: Seebs Date: 2009-09-25T06:25:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Won't Go On 2009-09-24, Ill Everbe wrote: > clearly i am no pro. i need to solve complex engineering problems. i now > have 2000 lines of code in liberty basic but wind up passing dozens of > parameters into subroutines. its pretty ugly. now runs but a bit too > complex for me to debug. so i figure oop is the way to go, but > unsuppported by most basic languages. i am a bit fearful to start over > in a new language. i am thinking it is worth effort to learn ruby. Any language you learn will probably help you think about programming better. I find Ruby friendly and expressive. It's far from being the language I'm best at (I'm definitely better in C and sh, probably better in awk, perl, and GNU make), but it's a very versatile language. I have never tried to learn Ruby except as an experienced programmer, so I am not sure what to recommend. I found the pickaxe book ("Programming Ruby") quite pleasant and well-written, but I suspect that it helps a lot that I'm used to programming. I liked Chris Pine's "learning to program", which I read to see if I could recommend it to people, and I could. -s -- Copyright 2009, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nospam@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated!