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Dizzutch · Sep 14th, 2005, 10:36 AM

yeah, but whoever tries to use prolog or lisp isn't right in the head anyway..

Infinite Recursion · Sep 14th, 2005, 10:40 AM

If you deal with Artificial Intelligence... you get the privilege / punishment of using both of those languages (Lisp, Prolog) a great deal.

Dizzutch · Sep 14th, 2005, 10:50 AM

oh i know, I'm not saying I'm right in the head, but i wouldn't recommend it to someone asking about scripting languages..

Infinite Recursion · Sep 14th, 2005, 11:00 AM

I defnitely wouldn't recommend it either

sykkn · Sep 14th, 2005, 11:20 AM

what scripting language you learn depends a lot on what kind of work you want to do ... php is going to be the one to choose for web stuff ( I wouldn't pick it for command line scripts, although I'm sure somebody out there would ) ... perl is really good if you, for example, work in a product support position where you end up dealing with a lot of text files that needs similar modifications ( ie: database records to be unloaded as a template, modified, and uploaded ). larger scripts are definately possible, but at one point you will question the readability ... I've not used python that much, but I have liked what I have seen so far ...

FYI - Perl is my main language ... I love it, but I can't deny that sometimes I look at old code and whisper to myself: "wtf?" .... maybe I should just write more comments, but that's another topic entirely

commodore · Dec 20th, 2005, 12:02 PM

offtopic: are lisp and prolog shit? I thought they're very good.

Pizentios · Dec 20th, 2005, 1:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jessehk

I have read multiple times that it is good to know one of the "big" languages (like C++, Java, C#, etc), and a scripting language.

When I finish my C++ book ( about another 400 pages ), I would like to take the time to learn a scripting language.

So, can anyone suggest a language ( I imagine python will come up more then once ), and a good book on it?

Thanks

Perl!

Arevos · Dec 20th, 2005, 1:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by commodore

offtopic: are lisp and prolog shit? I thought they're very good.

Prolog's strange, in that it's logic based, and is likely only to be practical in very rare situations. What situations these would be, I don't know

Lisp is interesting, because it's essentially just a glorified parse tree. This means that syntax, code and data are basically synonymous, making Lisp incredibly flexible. The disadvantage with Lisp is, I suspect, its lack of libraries. Compared to Ruby or Python, it's rather lacking in that area. It also seems not to have the momentum that Python or Ruby has.

a thing · Dec 20th, 2005, 6:19 PM

Your favorite shell, unless that's csh.

MicDareall · Jan 12th, 2006, 12:48 PM

python

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