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Top Forums Programming What Programming language should I start learning first? Post 302513041 by kurumi on Tuesday 12th of April 2011 08:35:56 AM

04-12-2011

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If you just want to do programming and not some low level stuff (device drivers, etc), then consider using a high level language like Python or Ruby. These languages let you concentrate on getting your stuff going, without having to learn low level stuff like pointers (c/c++) and such. Plus, they provide good to use data structures such as hashes, dictionaries and arrays (and abundance of libraries) which you can make use of in your programming task which you can find them lacking or hard to use in other languages. For Python, go to doc.python.org, For Ruby go to Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide

A rudimentary approach to convert your word from one language to another is to use a lookup table (that is, your hashes/dictionary). here's a demo in Ruby

Code:

>> words={ "ruby"=>"rub�", "is"=>"es", "great"=>"gran" } #english to spanish
>> words["great"]
=> "gran"

(of course, actual spanish may not be spoken like that.). you can further expand this list by creating a list of such mappings in a database or a flat file. And this is written in like less than a minute. Try doing that with C/C++ (or even Java)

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RUBY-SWITCH(1)															    RUBY-SWITCH(1)

NAME

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USAGE

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       ruby-switch --auto

DESCRIPTION

       ruby-switch can be used to easily switch to different Ruby interpreters as the default system-wide interpreter for your Debian system.

       When run with --list, all supported Ruby interpreters are listed.

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