From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jun 30 21:53:11 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 DD5FEB8753E for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:53:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd_atog@comcast.net) Received: from resqmta-ch2-03v.sys.comcast.net (resqmta-ch2-03v.sys.comcast.net [IPv6:2001:558:fe21:29:69:252:207:35]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "resqmta-po-01v.sys.comcast.net", Issuer "COMODO RSA Organization Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B28AE279E for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:53:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd_atog@comcast.net) Received: from resomta-ch2-12v.sys.comcast.net ([69.252.207.108]) by resqmta-ch2-03v.sys.comcast.net with SMTP id IjtSbYkyaSVL4IjtWb7pb4; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:53:10 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20140121; t=1467323590; bh=krDA/BU3FLWmpVKmGzHvwR8FXbYsl3fWm5MXuy50DXo=; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:MIME-Version: Content-Type; b=nSIYmAYMcQNtRcl1rNd6UmY4irAx2tie3HZ84OWZa28WCXJAg5Eqe58ZkwSA4W+DP NMOdvOxnP3QXVJKr4lfzUw1DdrpXN8Ek2T9zCIWev2NigIrqpuj3lYSrltypwkf+5H 1BbV/T86f80oCr4VvWGc2BTc8ZDrkBQAt22HD19ZU4SHKHGpnHyD6djNFHMfZkdj18 F9QdAA4MatIozaw8xSUNyh4qzdN8YeK/eIz7gFuzeC+uJeNO2eFmyrKWwv8r6jz/z8 vcEgJG/KZe26SMXMG5zLVmYmQlXY+PICE96Iuw8oRhOShCd59XoZD/D8CKJCuDmp5X 5RgNrWEch4DXg== Received: from KoggyBSD.org ([68.60.93.182]) by resomta-ch2-12v.sys.comcast.net with comcast id D9t91t0083w4emU019tAvi; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:53:10 +0000 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:52:43 -0400 From: Allen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.29; i386-portbld-freebsd10.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, 30 Jun 2016 21:53:12 -0000 Hi, I've been using FreeBSD on and off since 4.0-CURRENT, which seems like almost a lifetime ago now, heh. I'm currently using FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE and even though I've gotten my latest order from the FreeBSD Mall (Which I bought 10.3-RELEASE on DVD along with a bunch of other stuff for myself and my Wife) I'm not ready to upgrade yet since I've gotten my system working how I like (Got WindowMaker set up, and FVWM2, and some other stuff set up) so I'm using it for now. Anyway, in all these years that have passed using FreeBSD and a bunch of Linux distros, I never had time or patience enough to learn Programming Languages, and I'm getting more and more to the part where I'm thinking it's a good idea more so now than before. 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. Literally anyone who responds with an opinion, I'm interested. Being easy to learn for someone who isn't great with Math but does understand Unix is a plus but not a requirement. I was starting to teach myself Ruby on a Linux box I was using for a while and Ruby did seem to be going OK, but a lot of the FreeBSD Books I've bought recommend Perl, and I've also had just as many reasons from people saying to try Python, so basically any Language and what reasons would be great. -Allen