Charming Pythonistas (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Sep 12, 2007 13:31 UTC (Wed) by i3839 (guest, #31386)
In reply to: Charming Pythonistas (O'ReillyNet) by salimma
Parent article: Charming Pythonistas (O'ReillyNet)

I tried to say that for new programmers it doesn't matter much what imperative language they use as the basic is the same for all of them. I ruled out Haskell not for its syntax or because it might be harder, but because it's a different paradigm (sadly I don't know Haskell, so I assumed it's always functional). My point was that if you can program in one imperative languages, you can program in all of them, after learning the new syntax, its particularities and the standard libraries provided.

It saddens me that new students learn Java, personally I really don't see the point of it. It's a failed high level language, better to learn either Python or C. Same for C++.

I don't think that functional languages confuse people when they didn't learn an imperative language before, or do they?