Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:32:33 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pdegoeje@service2media.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Foo JH <jhfoo-ml@extracktor.com> Subject: Re: what is your programming language on freebsd? Message-ID: <200811071032.34327.pdegoeje@service2media.com> In-Reply-To: <20081106163134.GD43844@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <49131701.9020208@extracktor.com> <20081106163134.GD43844@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Thursday 06 November 2008, Jerry McAllister wrote: > 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 And don't forget Java. Eclipse-devel + jdk16 make an excellent development environment on FreeBSD. -- Pieter de Goeje
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