How to be a hacker ?

This is a statement made in a document i followed a link to in the forums it looks like it was written in 2001 this is it :

It's best, actually, to learn all five of Python, C/C++, Java, Perl, and LISP. Besides being the most important hacking languages, they represent very different approaches to programming, and each will educate you in valuable ways

Is this true and is it still applicable now nearly 7 years on ?

Id be interested in a discussion about the above statement…..so if you feel like it ……discuss !!

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chemical_brother2001 wrote: It's best, actually, to learn all five of Python, C/C++, Java, Perl, and LISP. Besides being the most important hacking languages, they represent very different approaches to programming, and each will educate you in valuable ways

WELL

yeah the more languages you know the better, with the qulifier that it is better to know one langauge well than heaps of languages shitly.

I'm going to be learning C++ and java over the next 2 eyars for uni, but i think python will likely always be my forte.

And as such, the rest of this comes from a python expert;

You'll find that clean effiecent C++, Java and Python is more or less the same, apart from the syntax differences, and C and LISP smilar.

the OOP/Procedural differences are what you really need to get your head around, when you really UNDERSTAND OO, as opposed to being able to use it, is when you can really start learning.

I really hope this helps.

richo, jsut a quick question if u dont mind. i am goin to take up a new language during the summer and since ur the"python god", is there anything "special" about python compared to say C or C++ that would make it worth while me doin that instead, because atm its im between Python, C and C++

any help wpould be appricated

thanks