From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 5:35:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uswgco34.uswest.com (uswgco34.uswest.com [199.168.32.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB6437B422 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 05:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from egate-ut2.uswc.uswest.com (egate-ut2.uswc.uswest.com [148.157.122.199]) by uswgco34.uswest.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e88CZIx17401 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:35:18 -0600 (MDT) Received: from kc0dxw-2.uswc.uswest.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egate-ut2.uswc.uswest.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e88CZIZ22553 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:35:18 -0600 (MDT) Received: by kc0dxw-2.uswc.uswest.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id BD5424D2; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:36:46 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:36:46 -0600 From: Matt Meola To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what language should i learn next ? Message-ID: <20000908063646.A9147@kc0dxw-2.uswc.uswest.com> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <122196276@toto.iv> <14776.25741.94379.452631@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14776.25741.94379.452631@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:01:17PM -0500 X-URL: http://www.qsl.net/kc0dxw X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:01:17PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > my personal suggestion, if you pick only one, would be perl, if only because > > its useful for a lot of different interesting things worth learning about... > > in addition to "normal programs" its well suited for shell-script-type > > programs, you can build gui's with tk, and if you're interested in web stuff > > you can use mod_perl with apache. it's not too hard to plug in a database > > like mySQL, either. there's also a vast library of code and add-on modules > > (CPAN) for all kinds of stuff - email, image processing, etc, etc. > > Since no one else put in a word about it.... > > Every word of this applies to Python as well (ok, CPAN doesn't have > Python code, but there is a very large library available). A minor, but important point: Python's extensive library is _built_in_ -- it makes it much nicer to use. No searching CPAN, then downloading and building; most of the really useful stuff is right there. Now, as far as modules like Oracle, and GTK/QT, etc... Then it is just like CPAN. -- Matt Meola +1-303-624-8419 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message