My brother has to learn "LINGO" for varsity... basically it's a programming language "to make building and solving linear, nonlinear and integer optimization models". Yeh I'm not really sure what any of that means either, but I'm the computer programmer in the family, and my brother's the genius/mathematician so I said I'd try and figure it out and teach him...

It's really good at what it says it does, but the logic and data-typing is horrible (but has made me appreciate PHP so much more!), the editor/IDE is nasty... it sort of support colours and formatting (eg: bold) - but it seems to set some of these itself, otherwise use the formatting of the text you paste in (which is really annoying).

I suspect you'd normally learn LINGO in a class, or from a book, or something like that... which would explain why I'm struggling to learn it using just the help file. Even Google doesn't offer help much - it turns out Macromedia/Adobe Director has it's own thing called "LINGO"... so while there are lots of "LINGO tutorials" and guides, they're for the wrong LINGO.

 Not much fun :|

(adds another notch on his "Programming Languages" belt)