Re: Scripting/ Programming HELP!!!

I, like Steve, learned MEL by reverse engineering other scripts that were written and posted on highend3d and then improving them. The docs are very thorough with regard to MEL. But I have to say learn python many modern 3d packages are starting to support python and it is quickly becoming the industry standard scripting language. Houdini has already replaced their expression and script language with python and maya has python support. Another possible direction is java which XSI supports. I've never seen max script or cinema 4d's scripting language but I imagine it might be similar to java or mel.