If there is ANY 'VB' to Linux, it's python/wxpython, not perl! :) -----Original Message----- From: Trent Shipley [mailto:tshipley@symbio-tech.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 3:16 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: RE: Linux Programmer > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of > der.hans > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 1:11 PM > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: Linux Programmer > > > On Wed, 24 May 2000, Anthony Walsh wrote: > > > Keith, > > > > To be honest with you I am not a programmer. I am familiar with > > the concepts, and the buzz words that IT people throw out, but it > > would be impossible for me to tell you what a Linux Programmer does. > > We presume this is done in c or c++, but it could be java. It would be > nice to know that. The two places in town I know of that are working with > it were doing c-based stuff last I knew. That is always my first thought, an OS programmer is a programmer who is used to developing REAL programs in OS . Thus a Linux programmer programs in C for a Linux environment. HOWEVER, technical journals titled _Linux Programming_ are often about script programming in the common Linux environments. In this case a Linux programmer is not a power developer of first tier applications in C, but a programmer who develops quick-and-dirty scripts to automate workloads and customize environments for users in a Linux shop (cf a VB programmer vs. VC++ programmer in MS ). This Linux programmer uses BASh, Sed/AWK, PERL (the Linux answer to VB), TCL/TK . . . and *very little* C. [This semantic use would also be consistent with the emphasis on networking. . . .] Trent _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss