Re: alternate language

"Bryan" <belred@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


what is a good alternate language to learn? i just want something to expand
my mind and hopefully reduce or delay any chance of alzheimer's. i would
especially like to hear from those of you who learned python _before_ these
languages.

haskell, erlang, ocaml, mozart/oz, rebel, etc.

i don't require any of these features, but extra browny points for any of
the following:

interactive interpreter
batteries included
can integrate with c
compiles to native code
can use a gui toolkit such as wx
doesn't take 60 hour weeks over years to master

Here's a skewed alternative, that has none of the features you are looking for:

1) Buy a development kit for a pic, 8031, avr or arm.
2) Read the documentation for the processor
3) Write a "hello world" in Assembler, simultaneously flickering an LED.

It will give more satisfaction, and delay the onset of Alzheimer's, far more
effectively than any of the higher level languages you are contemplating.

And if you really want a challenge, don't use the assembler, hand code the hex.
Just once.
Just so that you can appreciate what an assembler, and by extension,
a compiler, does for you.

- Happy hacking ;-)

- Hendrik



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