Where software meets hardware..

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-06-21 14:33, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
>Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
>> I have a cousin who's taking up a programming course. He doesn't have
>> background with programming nor an in depth understanding of how the
>> computer works.  [...]
>
> [snip excellent material by Oliver]
> At university there was a teacher who said that you should learn as
> many different programming languages as possible, at least one of
> every kind, i.e. one of the "classical brace languages", such as C, at
> least one object-oriented language (e.g. Smalltalk, Eiffel), one
> functional language (Haskell or OCaml), one assembly language (no
> matter which one) and so on.  The more the better.

After years of working with several languages, and using at least five
or seven of them in production code, I can't agree more.  The particular
professor definitely knew what he was talking about :-)