Re: Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-25 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: >> >>Tcl's maturity advantage is tiny--*maybe* two years. Both began at >>the end of the '80s. There've been close to two decades since to >>obscure any initial leads. > >The differen

Re: Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-25 Thread Tim Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: > >Tcl's maturity advantage is tiny--*maybe* two years. Both began at >the end of the '80s. There've been close to two decades since to >obscure any initial leads. The difference is more significant than that. Tcl started in 1987, but Python's history do

Re: Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-24 Thread Carl Banks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey guys, > > I am absolutely new to Linux programming, with no w##s programming > experience except a small amount of C++ console apps. > Reasonably new to Linux, BSD etc, got good sound networking base of > knowledge and dont have any problem working the command lin

Re: Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-24 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >My favourite's Python, but Tcl is definitely worth a look. It's been >around a bit longer than Python (so more time for every conceivable >problem to have

Re: Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-24 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> I am absolutely new to Linux programming, with no w##s programming >> experience except a small amount of C++ console apps. >> Reasonably new to Linux, BSD etc, got good so

Re: Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-24 Thread Ben C
On 2006-06-21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I am absolutely new to Linux programming, with no w##s programming > experience except a small amount of C++ console apps. > Reasonably new to Linux, BSD etc, got good sound networking base of > knowledge and dont have

Re: Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-23 Thread Alex Martelli
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I am absolutely new to Linux programming, with no w##s programming > experience except a small amount of C++ console apps. > Reasonably new to Linux, BSD etc, got good sound networking base of > knowledge and dont have any problem working the command

Re: Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-22 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on 2006-06-21 03:51): > I want to learn a language that I can use in my networking duties that > is most likely to be of use to me. I have a few choices I can think of > being: > > Python > Perl > C C is not really a choice in the perimeter of Perl and Python. Perl

Re: Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-20 Thread stylecomputers
Thanks James, Good to know resist shell scripting. Python web programming now theres something I had no Idea you could do with Python. how interesting :). Just been to your website, the letters after your name wouldnt fit very easily on one line would they :) Cheers Ty > Yes python will be go

Re: Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-20 Thread James Stroud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey guys, > > I am absolutely new to Linux programming, with no w##s programming > experience except a small amount of C++ console apps. > Reasonably new to Linux, BSD etc, got good sound networking base of > knowledge and dont have any problem working the command li

Absolute noob to Linux programming needs language choice help

2006-06-20 Thread stylecomputers
Hey guys, I am absolutely new to Linux programming, with no w##s programming experience except a small amount of C++ console apps. Reasonably new to Linux, BSD etc, got good sound networking base of knowledge and dont have any problem working the command line etc. I want to learn a language t