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Re: Tips learning a programming language?

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Dec 12th, 2006

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Originally Posted by WoBinator

Cool, thnx...something that i read made me think that assembly was easier lol .... im trying to learn Python at the moment ... from there ill move on to C++ :lol: ...

Whats up with Perl? is it easier than Python? is VBScript hard to learn? After learning Python could i move on to VBscript? or Python> C> C++> VBScript?
thnx

VBscript is supposed to mimic Microsoft's Visual Basic language, so it won't be too hard to learn. However, practically no one uses it nowadays (everyone uses Javascript instead). So it's not really that useful.

Perl is a queer mix of different languages that I never really caught on to. Some people think it's the greatest language in the world, others think it's very bad. From what I know, Perl is supposed to give you many ways to solve a problem -- Python idea is to only provide one way to solve it. All in all, they're not that much different in terms of learnability. However, Perl is supposed to be impossible to maintain.

Last edited by John A; Dec 12th, 2006 at 8:40 pm.

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