>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Rein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tony> On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 18:26, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: >> >> >> But let's suppose that I want to learn programming >> (perhaps to compile kernels, etc.) - what would be a >> good start? Symbolic logic? (Where to get a good >> instruction on that one?) C++? ... Slip? What language >> is the one most widely used for Linux? >> Thnx, Hrthstn. >> >> Tony> As others have pointed out, you do not need to be a Tony> programmer to configure and compile the Linux kernel. You Tony> don't even have to be able to read source code. Go to Tony> http://debian.org and follow the documentation links. Tony> If you want to learn programming, Perl is a fun language. Correction: If you want to learn programming, Perl is the *wrong* language. Take a look at Python. (Someone mentioned Bruce Eckel's books (www.mindview.com) on C++ and Java... incidentially, Bruce is a *huge* fan of Python :-) Bye, J PS: Really not wanting to start a flamewar here... but "Python is executable pseudocode, Perl is executable line-noise". ;-) -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Invasion! http://invasion.jerhard.org I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org) DMCA -- A.K.A The Gag Rule
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