New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Hadn't heard of Orx before. Thanks for the article!
I agree about not being "stuck" in a language.
I think sometimes new coders over-think what to learn first. I tell people (if they ask me) to identify what they have support in learning (friends who code in a specific language, or a particularly helpful online community, or the language that happens to have the best variety of books at the local library - whatever) and the to jump in.
Once you learn one language, the learning curve for all the other languages you'll learn is dramatically reduced. The floodgates open, you just have to start learning.