Author: William Penn
Date: 07:30:58 02/25/05
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On February 24, 2005 at 13:05:38, Dann Corbit wrote: >Use the language you know best to learn. > >Use a compiled language to win. > >The most popular are: >1. C >2. C++ >3. Pascal variants >4. Everything else > >Do NOT use: >1. Assembly (I guarantee that eventually you will be sorry). Too tedious. >2. Awk/Perl/Php/Python/Rexx or any other interpreted language. Too slow. > >Interesting alternatives: >1. Ada (Robust) >2. C#/Java (Easy to use, nice abstraction) >3. Eiffel/Haskell/Icon/Sather/Smalltalk/Lisp (Just to see how well it turns out) >4. ML (Chess in a functional language might be cool) > >If you do use these, I think eventually you would rewrite in C or C++. Thanks to all for your suggestions. It looks like "C" is most often suggested as a higher-level language, with later translation into Assembly for subroutines that need to be as fast as possible. That's analogous to what I used to do with Basic and Assembly on my old C64. WP
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