On 3/3/2011 8:35 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
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Some people he works with have recommended Python. I know nothing about it.
I suggested C, but I made the mistake to telling him it's like Latin for a
language major, and he hated Latin. He's not going to be doing anything that
relates to the Web. His interest is mostly in things that will help him deal
with data.

Any thoughts?


you can't go wrong with C, just read Kernigan and Ritchie and start
coding - pretty much any language is like any other language, just some
syntactic differences. If cost is an issue, use the VBA within MS
office apps and write clever macros

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