Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:36:46 -0600 From: Matt Meola <mmeola@uswest.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what language should i learn next ? Message-ID: <20000908063646.A9147@kc0dxw-2.uswc.uswest.com> In-Reply-To: <14776.25741.94379.452631@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:01:17PM -0500 References: <122196276@toto.iv> <14776.25741.94379.452631@guru.mired.org>
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:01:17PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > my personal suggestion, if you pick only one, would be perl, if only because > > its useful for a lot of different interesting things worth learning about... > > in addition to "normal programs" its well suited for shell-script-type > > programs, you can build gui's with tk, and if you're interested in web stuff > > you can use mod_perl with apache. it's not too hard to plug in a database > > like mySQL, either. there's also a vast library of code and add-on modules > > (CPAN) for all kinds of stuff - email, image processing, etc, etc. > > Since no one else put in a word about it.... > > Every word of this applies to Python as well (ok, CPAN doesn't have > Python code, but there is a very large library available). A minor, but important point: Python's extensive library is _built_in_ -- it makes it much nicer to use. No searching CPAN, then downloading and building; most of the really useful stuff is right there. Now, as far as modules like Oracle, and GTK/QT, etc... Then it is just like CPAN. -- Matt Meola +1-303-624-8419 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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