Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 12:02:13 +0000 From: mail@bontempi.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD Message-ID: <1467374533.491877.654118113.1C2C9642@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <CANJ8om4QL3Bg=OLsxafWE%2B0S8fjDeVgMdErw9POX2uEW1a_=-A@mail.gmail.com> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> <20160701095652.17036e6fe1e467ee64adc9f7@sohara.org> <CALfReycV8Wn%2BTY1AiFZYortHrWFhA2xp8zXJ=KG159x%2BcT0YaQ@mail.gmail.com> <CANJ8om4QL3Bg=OLsxafWE%2B0S8fjDeVgMdErw9POX2uEW1a_=-A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, at 11:50, Ultima wrote: > If perl has been decided, I suggest learning rperl instead of regular > perl. They more or less the same, except in that rperl has a stricter > syntax usage (correct me if I'm wrong, not an expert). It will compile it > into a c blob and be much faster than regular perl. One of the compile > settings was 400ish times faster? Yeah... if I were to learn perl, it > would > definitely be rperl. >=20 > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:22 AM, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > > Depending on the problems you are tackling it may also be worth thinking > > about things at a higher level as well. eg if you are doing systems > > maintenance/automation look at something like ansible. It's not program= ming > > in an traditional sense, but it can make things a lot easier to do, > > especially if you are doing things at scale. There are other config > > management tools out there (chef, puppet, salt, fabric etc) but ansible= is > > relatively easy to setup and get going, and will utilise anything you l= earn > > in python very well. Don't be put off by the fact you may only have a s= mall > > number of machines, it still makes life easier. > > > > On 1 July 2016 at 09:56, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:52:43 -0400 > > > Allen <bsd_atog@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > > Anyway, in all these years that have passed using FreeBSD and a bun= ch > > > > of Linux distros, I never had time or patience enough to learn > > > > Programming Languages, and I'm getting more and more to the part wh= ere > > > > I'm thinking it's a good idea more so now than before. > > > > > > First off FreeBSD supports most programming languages from BA= SIC > > to > > > Prolog by way of C, Smalltalk, LISP, Haskell and Forth among many oth= ers. > > > > > > Here's the thing - each of the languages I've listed is an > > example > > > of a particular programming paradigm (there are many other examples of > > each > > > paradigm). If your aim is to learn about programming in general then I > > > would advise learning as many different paradigms as possible. If your > > aim > > > is to do a bit of programming then pick a language - any language - a= nd > > > learn to write something useful. > > > > > > Python and Perl are both easy to learn OO/structured language= s, > > > python attempts to force good style, perl is more of an anything goes > > > approach. Learn one and the other is easy to learn. > > > > > > -- Thanks for that reference. Although rperl is a pretty young project, it is quite promising. Some benchmarks here: http://rperl.org/performance_benchmarks.html As far as I understand, Perl can be used with rperl, since the latter is a string compiler of the former. Perl is a lot of fun to learn. If one likes Perl's =C2=ABweltanschauung=C2= =BB as programming language, it can easily become addictive. Priyadarshan
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