From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 16:35:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9D461065676 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:35:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC868FC12 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:35:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mA6GVZtM044128; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:31:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id mA6GVZeK044127; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:31:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:31:34 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Foo JH Message-ID: <20081106163134.GD43844@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <49131701.9020208@extracktor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49131701.9020208@extracktor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is your programming language on freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:35:12 -0000 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:10:41AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: > Hi there, > > Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I > may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono > on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. > > To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: > 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? > 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? > 3. Is FreeBSD even a popular choice as a development platform, or is it > better suited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS server)? FreeBSD suppports just about any programming language that has been created. If you go to /usr/ports/lang/ you will see a large list of them that you can install. As for the most common, well, C and C++, Shells such as SH, CSH/TCSH and Perl are very common, plus in conjunction with web servers such as Apache, PHP, Python, Ruby and a number of others are common. If you are doing number crunching, you can use FORTRAN and if you are in to historical business environments, there is even Cobol. As for being optimized for a language, it is more likely the other way around. Are there any languages that have good optimization for running on FreeBSD. Maybe. Someone else may know more about that, than I do. ////jerry > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"