I'm not sure about perl and python, I usually use vim there.  For java, 
you may want to try out eclipse, it's cross-platform, like java is, so 
you can run it in windows, linux, a mac, and solaris.  It's here:

http://www.eclipse.org/

It's even got its own built-in tutorial that teaches you how to write 
Hello World.

-Scott

Josh Coffman wrote:

>Greetings from you local village idiot...
>
>  I'm a windows programmer. I'd like to at least have
>a clue how to program on linux also. Maybe Java. Maybe
>Python or Perl. Anyone care to make recomendations
>that one could fit into an already busy life. I could
>probably best start by doing some reading and then a
>Hellow World type example.
>
>  I've also got this itch to fix Network Manager to
>run in KDE as well as Gnome, but I'm not ready for that.
>  
>
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