cornel panceac wrote: > 2010/12/13 Sven Aluoor <aluoor at gmail.com> >> >> I have more than 12 years experience with UNIX system administration, >> but I am too stupid for programming. My only programming experience is >> shell scripting. I tried to learn Java, but don't understand it >> because it is too complicated for my limited brainpower. >> >> What programming language should I learn? >> >> A friend said that C-Sharp (Mono) is very simple. Is this true? > > my first language was pascal. if i'd had the opportunity, i'd start with > c. > herbert schildt's teach yourself c was great for me. Maybe it was because I knew a number of languages before C, but I taught myself with K&R: no fancy pictures, or huge margins... but it answered all my questions, and had an index that was useable. mark