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Interpreted vs. compiled labguages (25)


1 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2011-03-07 12:48 ID:Aep/pjix

Would you say it's easier for a newbie to pick up programming by learning an interpreted language ?

16 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-06-18 13:30 ID:nCLwiqu9

Two good docs for would-be programmers:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

17 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-07-01 01:26 ID:E6kT7erT

ITT: Pussies who don't have the brain plasticity to learn assembly

18 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-07-04 00:51 ID:Heaven

>>17
I wasted all my grey matter on eroge and 4chan, leave me alone.

19 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-09-14 05:23 ID:6GcFPCrk

>>13
ASM is not a clusterfuck. C and its undefined behavior is a clusterfuck.

20 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-10-09 13:52 ID:hKPHxe0D

>Would you say it's easier for a newbie to pick up programming by learning an interpreted language ?

I would say it depends on what are you like/want to do more.

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21 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-10-20 13:39 ID:77BK0eUh

>>19

I dare to object. Every self-respecting C compiler should spill warnings about UB, until you bend over. To top it off for a bit, stronger typing of C++ treats some UB as hard errors (while creating plethora of new ones in it's wild-west approach to OO).

22 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-11-24 14:31 ID:/vjq3rnG

>>20
Please don't start with PHP, for the love of God. That is the worst thing anyone could do.

23 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-11-24 22:29 ID:Heaven

>>22
I mean, feel free to learn it at some point as I fully understand it is necessary to know in some lines of work, but to learn it as a first language will give you bad habits that are hard to drop if they're the first things you learnt.

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24 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-11-29 18:32 ID:7Bu9YmDM

>>20
No, oh my god no. PHP is no. Just no.
Is you want to pick up an actual language that is easy, go with Python or Ruby.

25 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2012-12-06 19:55 ID:Rm+oYDsT

PHP is an actual programming language. It is, however, not a general-purpose programming language.