Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 06:38:12 +0100 From: james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com> To: Allen <bsd_atog@comcast.net>, FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD Message-ID: <2ad46526-20a7-c4b6-178f-89385029d137@mansionfamily.plus.com> In-Reply-To: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org>
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On 30/06/2016 22:52, Allen wrote: > I have the book "Learning Perl" that I bought a while back, and I've > also downloaded a bunch of stuff for Perl, Python, Ruby, and others, so > I'm just curious on basically what Languages anyone here would > recommend. I'll go against the flow here and suggest Go. Like Python, there's plenty of batteries included in the Go ecosystem. Its also portable. I found it easy to learn, and it has automatic storage management. While its fully compiled, the compilation process is very fast - fast enough that compile-on-demand as a scripting substitute is workable. Unlike Python: - it runs very fast - it has some reasonable strong typing A dynamic typed language may seem easier to learn, but I think its illusory. I'd really like to suggest Haskell, because I'd say that after years of experience I became a better programmer when I started to learn it, but its an unusual choice. James
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