Originally Posted by DAD22
Octave, which is like a free, stripped down version of matlab.
Looks cool!

I found this Slashdot thread fun to read. I wholeheartedly agree that any flavor of Basic should be avoided as a first language, though Visual Basic.NET is far less offensive than previous versions. And I second the advice to learn assembly language fairly early on.

Striving to increase my rate of flow, and fight forum gloopiness. sick