From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 1 06:36:33 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A01C2B8A65C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:36:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewlylegould@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oi0-x22a.google.com (mail-oi0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 666252CF1 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:36:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewlylegould@gmail.com) Received: by mail-oi0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id s66so98351737oif.1 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:36:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=S9/Chdx7g9aIHgFlr9ooEPKhLNTppJLZOSYox5kn/Pw=; b=uaKkV6y8ZIpxuRYPhM8Kdp5GOnpS7FpJP1D8wFvMjWJSUOlSnw5w97XPTOESLrGBlq 6sKZD2ZFtMXv6oRrpU3GyoUZ1Pn0qbtFqGlrNcFJrf5qK/IWEkhO0Q2uXj59FzXcpNOg 6Nw5NqvlmboVg9creNenAanE0IEwEQnmdepmUX8+2B+4J+ZW2/uk0XJDXiUBkAJieXuL xJbcznvkXthSAhteZCu0n4ya/7OpGr7L3Nyllh6RBPJibOpoOKuGihrNmn24CTQSINks aMhArC5+MThvWY34GJWWVpx1GSXFXCQ3s4K1RVUqs/+6xJri9cJ8LzQuCcL37ugqd7P0 agsA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=S9/Chdx7g9aIHgFlr9ooEPKhLNTppJLZOSYox5kn/Pw=; b=madQ7z/Fm/xsG5Tl+YZk0fiDhiOfBKVGWUKWIcVB+ILAB0tLvf/wJkNSpzo0F9sd9i SZdhTp4ckvewBvEZji9AeHSPxVWVXWO6ZprzA9vuO96S7BDtQBIQlxNhs31r1HDw0aYs q/2BanE+7VwlviBVt7Vewf9EmZ4dkcvLS225PkYCYHr3xreBFpBsTFd/TmIjBscZlcrn ObEv6N531K78kC/Bz/30PrPeDcXT1Wht7+MTS3o6ELBCjO2Ioq8tmmPJDncYz3/8zvPs emKXLL2bcbefUvaE6ZHFNXMdT+XOj0wn+CeW3tZGMOXi1HUIpKc3a3vvuk3A+dCf3Ndn TBRQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tLN32JC8B/+sjpz5xp3EaqWG/3hVqN8tKa43RWN2WVuPt9I22lN9A2qLljTMM4SMLdWe6yNFg5bIzzrSg== X-Received: by 10.202.63.86 with SMTP id m83mr11094667oia.139.1467354992587; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:36:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.202.75.140 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:36:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> From: Andrew Gould Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 01:36:32 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD To: Allen Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 06:36:33 -0000 I have made great use of very little Python for over a decade. I use it for: 1. extracting data from text files 2. managing some SQL scripts that make use of ODBC connections 3. managing a series of ImageMagick commands. 4. detecting the external address of my internet gateway and updating my EasyDNS account when my dynamic address changes. All of my scripts (except the last one) run in FreeBSD and Windows without modification. I am but a CPA who strayed too far from the ledger. I can vouch for the ease of learning Python. Best of luck, Andrew On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Allen wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using FreeBSD on and off since 4.0-CURRENT, which seems like > almost a lifetime ago now, heh. I'm currently using FreeBSD > 10.0-RELEASE and even though I've gotten my latest order from the > FreeBSD Mall (Which I bought 10.3-RELEASE on DVD along with a bunch of > other stuff for myself and my Wife) I'm not ready to upgrade yet since > I've gotten my system working how I like (Got WindowMaker set up, and > FVWM2, and some other stuff set up) so I'm using it for now. > > Anyway, in all these years that have passed using FreeBSD and a bunch > of Linux distros, I never had time or patience enough to learn > Programming Languages, and I'm getting more and more to the part where > I'm thinking it's a good idea more so now than before. > > 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. > > Literally anyone who responds with an opinion, I'm interested. Being > easy to learn for someone who isn't great with Math but does understand > Unix is a plus but not a requirement. I was starting to teach myself > Ruby on a Linux box I was using for a while and Ruby did seem to be > going OK, but a lot of the FreeBSD Books I've bought recommend Perl, > and I've also had just as many reasons from people saying to try > Python, so basically any Language and what reasons would be great. > > -Allen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >