Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 08:02:04 +0200 From: Murk Fletcher <murk.fletcher@gmail.com> To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com Cc: Allen <bsd_atog@comcast.net>, User Questions <FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAH=3fONU4xA9vezXtOpXCyNowt25-8=9evYPV5g9qfKKLgnUzg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2ad46526-20a7-c4b6-178f-89385029d137@mansionfamily.plus.com> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> <2ad46526-20a7-c4b6-178f-89385029d137@mansionfamily.plus.com>
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Ruby is really the only way to go. Python is nice but the majority of people supporting it are those who've spent most of their lives learning it and would do anything to defend it. Look up "Rails vs Python" etc. on YouTube (although comedy sketches). --Murk On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 7:38 AM, james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote: > On 30/06/2016 22:52, Allen wrote: > >> I have the book "Learning Perl" that I bought a while back, and I've >> also downloaded a bunch of stuff for Perl, Python, Ruby, and others, so >> I'm just curious on basically what Languages anyone here would >> recommend. >> > > I'll go against the flow here and suggest Go. > > Like Python, there's plenty of batteries included in the Go ecosystem. > Its also portable. > I found it easy to learn, and it has automatic storage management. > > While its fully compiled, the compilation process is very fast - fast > enough that > compile-on-demand as a scripting substitute is workable. > > Unlike Python: > - it runs very fast > - it has some reasonable strong typing > > A dynamic typed language may seem easier to learn, but I think its > illusory. > > I'd really like to suggest Haskell, because I'd say that after years of > experience I > became a better programmer when I started to learn it, but its an unusual > choice. > > James > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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