Good Starter Language? (was Re: REALBasic and OpenAL)

[James Sissel]

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 at 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 at dracken.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.