From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 19:27:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBBBD37B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:27:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000908022723.NZOC27630.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com> for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:27:23 -0700 Message-ID: <39B7EC2C.16D40CD3@home.com> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 19:27:40 +0000 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what language should i learn next ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Philipp Huber wrote: > > On 07-Sep-00 Jason Holland wrote: > > > > Learn shell scripting first, its extremly important. > > shell scripting is of course even more powerful with tools like sed & > awk, so it would be good to take a look at them as well. > > Philipp > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message If you are like me and have to do Windows scripting/programming in addition to Unix, you may want to take a look at Python. I can play around with algoriths, wxWindows, Tk whatever in Unix, and then use the same code in Windows. The win32all package is very powerful, allowing me to script Excel, Word, whatever through COM. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message