Hi Brian, On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Brian Borowski wrote: <snip> > There's so much choice, but the real thing is, you've got to have some > commitment and initiative to see the thing through; this is really the > important part of the whole thing. > > In my opinion, C is the ultimate, I like perl and java, (java when I need > to), but as someone else has said, the technique, not the language is > important. The skills like algorithm design and its implementation are > what you really have to learn, then you use the language to express your > ideas in something the machine can understand and work with. > > Brian Borowski I agree with these ideas completely. I guess the resources available to a student today are quite different and more powerful, allowing more choice, than they once were. Maybe I better reconsider my plug for Basic in the light of that. Chuck Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Crescent (2% of Full)
