I liked Pascal but what do you do with it?

Perl seems to be very easy to learn and yet extremely powerful and can get very complex. But it has just never really taken off as a mainstream language. However, I've found a few applications that I would't write in anything else.

I don't really like Java but it's all the rage today. And how many times have we all heard that the new language was going to replace all the other languages? Sure, it's good for a lot of things but I really don't think I'd recommend it as a beginner language any more that I'd make 6-year-olds use a calculator to learn 1+1=2.

For a language that is good and introduces you to a lot of topics and is easy to start learning and can get very complex later as you grow you really can't beat C or C++.

BASIC, in all of it's forms, I've found really stinks IMHO.

--- Jeremy Fowler JFowler@westrope.com wrote:

assembler... ;-) Learn from the inside out!

Seriously though, I would say Delphi and/or Kylix.

Of Leo Mauler Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:40 PM To: D. Hageman; Kclug Subject: Good Starter Language? (was Re: REALBasic and OpenAL)

If not BASIC, then what would be the programming language of choice for the beginner?

Ideas accepted from all.

--- "D. Hageman" dhageman@dracken.com wrote:

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I know a couple of weeks ago I posted a message recommended a person not learn REALBasic for their first language. I still believe in this very much, but we do apparently have a couple of people on this list that work with REALBasic.