Starting a teenager programming?

[Aereshaa]

@kishjeff: Scheme is elegant because it hardly ever needs variables: all you need are functions. Usually my scheme programs are a bunch of function declarations, and then a big, nested function call.
@^: Exactly. As a mathematically minded person, I find java not terse enough, and I don't like OO much. Even in games, I prefer write in C with structures rather than C++ with classes.

[WingedPanther]

I don't mind classes (I actually like them), but the trick is to use them gracefully. If you go nuts with the Get/Set methods it becomes pretty silly.

[zombie0hour]

may i jump in and say perl?

[chili5]

sure if you want to.

what is perl good for?

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[Aereshaa]

@^: If you're on a *n?x (unix, linux, etc.) machine, Perl is great for glue programs, string handling, regexes. Its syntax is easy, and it is a interpreted language, so you can write programs and run them really easily. It has great integration with the shell, and has full support for unicode. It... Oh I could go on and on. It's a really fun language, and it's permissive syntax lets you write code the way you want to. It is also a good entry to the 'hard' languages like C. As I said before, I used Perl before C, and bash before Perl.

If you're not on a *n?x, then it's still very useful, and most programs in Perl that don't use the shell can be run on practically any platform without any changes!

[Pancrazio]

Originally Posted by MeTh0Dz

Name one time when it would be better to use python, than C++ Chili? You are best off learning one of the three languages I mentioned because they are the most powerful and versatile languages. You will find that other languages have many more limitations.

MeTh0Dz is one of those guys who would use a calliper to measure the Eiffel tower. And don't say it isn't possible!

[chili5]

So perl is one of those cross-platform languages? that can do almost anything?

I guess C# is probably the best language to start with because it's syntax is very similar to a lot of languages:

1. Java
2. PHP
3. JavaScript

and probably a lot others.

[MeTh0Dz]

How do you come to the reasoning that C# is the best language to start with, just because it has similar syntax to other languages? That is very poor reasoning.

[chili5]

Geez

fine, if the languages are similar they you will be able to pick up on other languages a lot easier. If you know C#, then you can easily learn PHP which gives you more options. If you want to make software not just for windows than yes C++ is probably the language you want to learn.

Now before I say something stupid, and get you to say something to make me even more ticked off. What is assembly for? why do you think it's worth while to learn?

[MeTh0Dz]

Assembly, can be used for anything. In some cases Assembly is the only language that can be used. This is due to the fact that Assembly allows you to manipulate the actual hardware associated with a system. So in OS or Driver Development there are times when you will have to use Assembly. This is because Assembly is the lowest level language other than Binary of course.

And even if you were going to be coding strictly for Windows, C++ would still make a better choice, even just because of its speed.