programming on linux

[Vaughn Treude]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:18, Matt Nesteruk wrote:
> Perl is where its at.
>  
> cheq out http://www.perlmonks.org/
>  
> :o)

I also recommend learning C/C++, not necessarily because these languages
are better (or the fact that I myself have used them for many years) but
because so much open source is written in them.  Although I'd like to
learn Perl and Python some day, I haven't yet run into a situation where
I needed to do that, because there's almost always a C/C++
implementation.

Vaughn

> 
>  
> On 1/24/06, stu <wien33 at cox.net> wrote: 
>                This is an interesting thread! One of the reasons I
>         switched to GNU/Linux
>         (aside from the most obvious M$ drawbacks), is the opportunity
>         to get back 
>         into programming as a hobby without shelling out lots of money
>         for the
>         supporting software. My problem is that, other than some HTML,
>         I haven't done
>         anything serious since M$ Level 2 BASIC and some Z80 assembly
>         many moons 
>         ago (when "Zelda" was a text based console game!). This
>         experience doesn't
>         translate well into { } and ::;s.
>                I'm interested in Python, but I'd welcome suggestions
>         and recomendations
>         from others getting stared up again. 
>         
>         On Monday 23 January 2006 22:01, Judd Pickell wrote:
>         > If you are wanting to keep up with the newest techs, Python
>         and Ruby are
>         > the way to go. The core Linux languages are C/C++, PERL, and
>         shell
>         > scripting (atleast from my experience). Python is starting
>         to take over the 
>         > PERLs role, but PERL is well entrenched I think.
>         >
>         > I am hoping to hunker down and learn Python here pretty
>         soon. Many of my
>         > favorite games are now using it for UI and modding
>         capabilities, so I 
>         > figure I better learn it so I can play with their stuff.
>         >
>         > Sincerely,
>         > Judd Pickell
>         >
>         > On 1/23/06, Austin Godber <godber at uberhip.com> wrote: 
>         > > Josh Coffman wrote:
>         > > > 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 
>         > >
>         > > Welcome Josh,
>         > >
>         > > Here are some references:
>         > > Python Tutorial
>         > > http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html
>         > >
>         > > Perl Book in PDF Format
>         > > http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/
>         > >
>         > > Ruby Book
>         > > http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
>         > >
>         > > Really, it depends on what type of stuff you are
>         interested in doing.  I
>         > > don't know of any equivalent resources for C or C++.  Sun,
>         of course, 
>         > > has a ton of Java documentation.
>         > >
>         > > I have recently become a bit of a ruby fanboy.  But
>         admitedly I was
>         > > pleased that I could extend the ruby pcap wrapper to parse
>         ARP packets 
>         > > in an hour or two without knowing any ruby to begin with.
>         > >
>         > > Austin
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