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IMHO,

Java, C# and VB.NET are  horrible teaching languages.  You're neither close
enough to the machine to learn much about how a computer actually works, nor
at a high enough level to learn a lot of the fancy, abstract ways of
thinking that seem to help make good programmers.

Ruby and Python are pretty decent choices, I think.

MBL

On Jan 31, 2008 2:09 PM, longint <michael.mello / gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 30, 4:30 pm, "Reg... / argentina.com Reg... / argentina.com"
> <reg... / argentina.com> wrote:
> > Hi!, i want to learn how to program.Is ruby a good option?. Thanks.
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> I don't think I would recommend a dynamically typed language like
> Ruby.  Maybe something like C#, Java, or VB.NET as a first language.
>
>

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