@ITwrx this is the first I have ever even heard the term

@ITwrx it is on Rosetta code, but near as I can see it is still young enough that it is a sub 1.0 version. Are there good turtoials like Python, and lots of current users and existing codebases and libraries to make life for a n00b easier :)

@Absinthe there's enough info and existing code to learn the language from what i've seen so far, but not all the niceties of a very popular, more mature language, so it would need to be a noob who didn't care about that as much. I only meant to mention the language as a nice python alt, not to disagree with your priorities for random noobs. :)

@ITwrx it used to be that if you wanted to learn you might pick up BASIC, or if you wanted to pay for a compiler you used Pascal. Or if you were a follower of Knuth you learned Mix for which I don't think there is an acatual compiler or interpretter. So, I am thinking as a "Hey, this computer stuff might be neat, maybe I should learn some coding" Python seems like a great first program starting point.

Did you see @freemo puzzle? It was quite an interesting task, but when ti was done, more interesting was tryign to write it in something. I live in C all day, so of course I chose python :)

@Absinthe yeah, it's not real well known. Certainly no Python, in that regard. If ubiquity was not a major requirement for an individual, then it looks pretty recommendable to me so far. Clean, easy syntax, compiled to C.

@ITwrx if recommending something to a n00b I like to keep to the things that I know will be able to support their learning process. Everyone that graduates with a masters degree seems to write a new language. So there are new ones all the time.