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I’m looking for a new language to learn, as I’ve had less and less things to do every day now. It’ll fill in some of the gap for now. The thing is that I’m looking for a language that is good to use on some short and dirty programs that sometimes you’ll want to whip out just to automate some easy, but tedious task. But also I’d like it powerful enough to do some more complex stuff, and not make it too difficult to do so. I did some Java before, but even just to get started, you needed to type a bunch of stuff, and sometimes the actual working code is less than half of the whole program. I got tired of it and just stopped.

Any suggestions/recommendations?

I was looking into perl, until I saw some short and VERY dirty code. Maybe python? Or even ruby? Also any recommendations on what book to use for learning the language? (It seems like a book suits me better than a web page/PDF/etc. I am lazy, and don’t really fancy switching focus constantly)

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 at 12:48 am and is filed under General, Tech and Geeks, Programming.