14 Oct
2010
14 Oct
'10
10:50 a.m.
Tim Clewlow wrote:
Ruby on Rails.
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David
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Tim Clewlow
wrote:
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I completely agree, I've dabbled in Lisp and Prolog. My point is
that most languages are based around: variables, conditionals,
loops, and procedures. There are variations of implementing this,
and many additional concepts floating around, but the concepts I
listed appear as the base of most languages. I thought it might be
better to hold off from introducing predicate calculus and list
based coding for a first time programmer. ;-)
Happy coding, Tim. Note, most programming languages are very similar
in terms of the
concepts they describe. So once you have learned one, the rest
come
much more easily..
Assuming that you have C or C++ experience, have you ever
looked
at languages like Haskell, Prolog and Postcript, because those
are three languages are very different to one another and also
very different from C and C++ (which are rather similar).
Erik
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