On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > There are some languages that can *only* be used by "very smart people". APL > comes to mind, and I suspect there are those who could make the same case > for Forth, Haskell and Prolog. For "most of us", languages like Python, > Perl, PHP, Ruby and Lua are great *because* they're easy to learn even if > you're not a "very smart person". Huh? Forth was one of the easiest languages for me to learn. Ruby has been a LOT more work. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use.