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[Michael <mogmios@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PHP or Python I think are good starting languages. I think LISP would make
a fantastic embeded web scripting language but have yet to see any
implementation for server side web scripting that could match Perl,
Python, and PHP. I once wrote a web-oriented lisp implementation called
wisp but I got bored way before I found any really good uses for it. :)

I think the type of programming a programmer uses should match not only
the types of problems they are trying to solve but also how they think
about problems. A really good programmer can work well with many types of
languages because they can see problems from many angles at the same
time. :)

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Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape
you. -- Albert Einstein

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Derek Fountain wrote:

> > I'm not sure! I've seen people who has started with procedural and OO
> > languages instead of functional ones, and they are mostly uncapable of
> > solving a simple functional problem, p.ex, a small counter! I don't
> > think you'll need a Maths degree before you could do an (+ 2 3)...
> 
> Well, perhaps my view is tainted. I used to work with a guy (who had a
> maths background) who raved on and on about functional programming and
> how it was going to solve the world's problems. I never could work it
> out and I've been programming 15 years or more.
> 
> Once, though, he explained a Haskel program which solved the 8-Queens
> chessboard problem and it sort of clicked with me. I could see what he
> was getting at when confronted by that problem and used functional
> programming to express a mathematical solution.
> 
> But for beginners? No. It's too specialised, at least in my opinion.
> 
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