|From: Joe Davison <jwdavison at lucent.com>
|

  ...snip...
|
|It's probably more important to learn different programming paradigms than
|particular languages.  Different languages support different paradigms
|better than others.  The short list of languages I'd tell people to learn
|would be something like:  Lisp, Smalltalk, Snobol, and C. <


Or, alternatively: Scheme, Smalltalk, Icon, and C -- and might I suggest
adding a more or less "pure" functional language to the paradigm list,
something like Concurrent Clean or Erlang.

-- Dwight