From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 7 06:02:10 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6563EB7663A for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2016 06:02:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murk.fletcher@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x230.google.com (mail-wm0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02B15134F for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2016 06:02:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murk.fletcher@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x230.google.com with SMTP id f126so196874583wma.1 for ; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:02:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=MiYoO6+H0/e7y+MaaoevsQC5g/0u3gNDFSPcaK8z57g=; b=CWQIL3ftDLF8jDNyT080YmRlPgStKSvmnEg0fAESrHcWvWnyMqOXWrC5K1dQWpWEKO ikne6x6cvnoDJ6OsZd125wTVfC/QtSGaDZnF2uREM5UerOy+f/A3g3dzmh7etn04itZY DTlECtanW10qqHy4VMgZ++x/ISNcoNh0wmEmfgWxnoiLlZC6oqWbatFHO9FXQCn25NPT zY8Eh9kVCGxcFKu2vYgOIFwkC0ubZpUYAKHAWHPgs9iIxa2aw0WPTwGiH30nxXYwh9aH LAKu9aIAtv2XcHVResCsyOYYRjHiDjRYQroN8SIJs1bBM477w2bWcTCuSHDCZ6aLldF/ K0uw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=MiYoO6+H0/e7y+MaaoevsQC5g/0u3gNDFSPcaK8z57g=; b=mvePa1TNiDuRC8N+CgfNOJ9KCYmq/tVMXBWM34mixJyg5BALidNxw2W22Gh1n+szae 8pjiwxv5ZyDvcPllpMBdbEvo90y+fxnODc6DTPF+Z7DPHPrvnFZuc9AgxBR7Z3bn3KYh 0MKZ8XOhYHRpuoMjT9LohdkfOQ/PcJfnaQtU+58xlak5yUbGWaSqBo17q5cBQw1h1bJ5 Xjymr/EDkiTZyg+tYrWMbL7KH8GBhJQz7UbFgIEh7HOn0faV7OMISLAwnyH2xCJuWnOS 9qrxdOvN4S/iNCVsdoXc2DsCy3Ui/JnKuoF6EpVLi0umeC9/x9pVN7UyA3sDBbmZ22S3 Ax6A== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tIwOsyPc/NUJ3d8cR73Q5RoGNRzUJCuTDcVJMRzapDfpIY9d/+UUnwmy3lZ9iQlNhNp/JTorjC0qQUmRw== X-Received: by 10.28.95.196 with SMTP id t187mr25868759wmb.89.1467871325601; Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:02:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.194.46.200 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 23:02:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2ad46526-20a7-c4b6-178f-89385029d137@mansionfamily.plus.com> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> <2ad46526-20a7-c4b6-178f-89385029d137@mansionfamily.plus.com> From: Murk Fletcher Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 08:02:04 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com Cc: Allen , User Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 06:02:10 -0000 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 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" >