programming on linux

[Darrin Chandler]

Craig White wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:30 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
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>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.
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>Of course, it always depends on what your target usage is going to be.
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Well, Ruby on Rails is very hot right now, anyway. If you're not doing 
web development and just using Ruby you'll find a much smaller level of 
buzz, and people doing some really good stuff. Ruby is nice, and so is 
Python. Neither are brand new, and neither are going away any time soon. 
If you take any combination of Perl, Ruby, Python, and shell together 
then you can do just about anything you need in the "glue" or system 
admin world. Throw in C for low level and kernel stuff.

Use PHP for web if you know it and/or need to use a cms that requires it 
(all of them?). Otherwise use Rails.

That's my $0.02.

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