On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Tim Writer wrote:

learning a language like Perl, Python, Ruby, Lisp, or Scheme will be a lot more fun.

Depends on your definition of fun :) Decide what style of programming you prefer, and what types of applications you prefer to write, and pick a language based on that. For pure fun, with no real-world usefulness whatsoever, try learning intercal or brainfuck (I did not come up with that name). JV -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml