About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:

I would strongly recommend Python over C for learning to program.
>
> The syntax is very clean and clear (unlike Perl, which is visually very
> noisy); it is nearly like writing out and English language description
> of your code and watching it run.
>
> There are no fiddly memory management things (unlike C, where strings
> are fixed length memory arrays, and there are many pitfalls).
>
> The documentation is pretty good (see docs.python.org).
>
> Of course later you will want to learn other things to do particular
> things or just to use other paradigms.
>
> I would not recommend Perl for learning. And I used to write a lot of Perl.
>
> I do suggest you learn a little about the UNIX shell (bash, ksh, sh,
> zsh; all dialects of the core scripting language "sh"); being able to
> write simple pipelines and shell control structures (for loops, file
> patterns etc) is very useful.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Cameron Simpson



So Python is really good and I was not wrong! But people suggested me C are
not wrong as C is more close to the metal and the machine, that is for sure.



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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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