programming on linux

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:30 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
> 
> --- Micah DesJardins <micahdj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I think how to fit it in depends entirely on what
> > your intentions are.
> > 
> > If you want to do glue/shell/adm stuff, shell
> > scripting and perl still rule
> > If you want to do application programming, you have
> > a wide range of
> > tools and toolkits available and I highly encourage
> > you to explore
> > whatever interests you.
> > 
> > It really depends on what you want to do, but since
> > you were
> > discussing network apps, for both speed, library
> > availability and the
> > ability to be compiled anywhere I'd recommend
> > sticking to GCC
> > compliant C code.  That said, there are TONS of
> > beautiful programs
> > written in
> > 
> > For kernel / driver programming I believe this is
> > all pretty much C code.
> > 
> > As I understand it, you can link to most necessary
> > modules from any
> > language that will support C module mix-ins, but the
> > real issue
> > becomes will your code compile from gcc without
> > modification and (if
> > you care) how much modification to get it to work
> > with other cc
> > versions.
> > 
> > That said, most of what I do is more business logic
> > critical than
> > machine critical.  I do most of my work in php,
> > perl, ruby and bash. 
> > I think it really depends on what you're trying to
> > accomplish.  I wish
> > you the best of luck in whatever direction you
> > decide to go though.
> 
> Hmmm, I can and should learn C a little better. I'm
> more of a business logic person, but I meddle with
> other things too. I do a lot of architecture, but I
> could translate that to thec technology once I
> understand it better. Java would be a really easy
> transition for me and PHP seems easy enough. (Except
> my aversion to interpretted languages)
> 
> I keep seeing lots of stuff about Ruby lately.
> Anything think it will be around for a while or fade away?
----
ruby is very very hot right now - I'd say that the bullk of the answers
you have been getting ruby/python tell you what is hot at the moment.

Of course, it always depends on what your target usage is going to be.

Craig