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Re: Ruby java python or lisp

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Post by saurabh »

Try every one of them. I saw your submissions and comments. The time you spend asking these type of questions here at HN would be better spent learning. My guess is you are procrastinating.

Re: Ruby java python or lisp

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Post by raju »

yearsinrock wrote: post #3
saurabh wrote: post #2

Try every one of them. I saw your submissions and comments. The time you spend asking these type of questions here at HN would be better spent learning. My guess is you are procrastinating.

ok i'll start but which book should i refer for ruby

I would recommend Peter Coopers "Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional" book. Its well written and pretty exhaustive. Another book, once you get past Peters would be Flanagan and Matz (the creator of Ruby) "The Ruby Programming Language".

Good luck.

Re: Ruby java python or lisp

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Post by dazzawazza »

yearsinrock wrote: post #3
saurabh wrote: post #2

Try every one of them. I saw your submissions and comments. The time you spend asking these type of questions here at HN would be better spent learning. My guess is you are procrastinating.

ok i'll start but which book should i refer for ruby

For python I can't recommend a book. Dive in to Python is available online but to be honest the best thing to do is just start using it. It's just not hard.

DIP: http://www.diveintopython.org/toc/index.html

Tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html

Std Modules: http://docs.python.org/modindex.html

Std Library Reference: http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html

good luck

Re: Ruby java python or lisp

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Post by arockwell »

dazzawazza wrote: post #6
yearsinrock wrote: post #3

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ok i'll start but which book should i refer for ruby

For python I can't recommend a book. Dive in to Python is available online but to be honest the best thing to do is just start using it. It's just not hard. DIP: http://www.diveintopython.org/toc/index.html Tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html Std Modules: http://docs.python.org/modindex.html Std Library Reference: http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html good luck

I'll second dive into python. I thought it was an excellent read. The book does a good job of teaching the language while showing a lot of practical examples.

Re: Ruby java python or lisp

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Post by aurora72 »

I've started recently with LISP and it's been a rewarding experience. I've noticed that it's just more flexible than the C-like languages. For example, I have been able to get the factorial of a number as big as 3000 in a very short time! That was simply not possible with a C-like program. I've used Emacs with the "Superior Lisp Interaction Mode" preloaded, upon the suggestion I got from useful book "Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel" (It's available on line at gigamonkeys.com)

I have also acquired the book "ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham", which is a classic and no-nonsense book. I personally find Paul Graham's approach quite refreshing.

Having seen Ruby being employed in various environments, I've also started to learn Ruby. It's a multi-paradigm and dynamic language and hope to use it in a RoR application development. It kind of forces you to think dynamically and that helps you to write more efficient code, I guess.

So far, I couldn't find enough time for either Java or Python.

And oh, lastly I must say: C++ with templates (STL) is quite indispensable. If you master C++ with all its features like STL, you'll find that it can handle a whole lot of things quite elegantly.

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