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Re: What do you write when learning a new language?by philcrow (Priest) |
on Jun 04, 2008 at 18:54 UTC ( [id://690216]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I start with Newton's method for the square root of two or three. This also leads to a simple answer that I don't need a debugger to check. I start with a simple loop, then move that to a subroutine, then I move the subroutine to a differnt file so I can learn to make a library. Then I expand the function in the library to handle different root finding.
I did this in Pugs to try out Perl 6 and liked it so much I wrote an article about it. But, I've done it for many other languages over the years including Perl 5 and even (shudder) COBOL. Phil
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