From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 1 16:42:00 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 38C44B8F90C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2016 16:42:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rjhjr0@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vk0-x230.google.com (mail-vk0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c05::230]) (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 E8F942232 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2016 16:41:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rjhjr0@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vk0-x230.google.com with SMTP id k68so73592776vkb.0 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2016 09:41:59 -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; bh=Mme1bl34JOGLvv9tuDvUNQAgm7Y7q7/B9pmbJdgQs5M=; b=gyOJTBu6vN+dTj/CsBvcav61hgNXGbsdwfP+RZpDf+6vYn93YgpeXvm2jfhCY6ChSo +yR27RLvmtr45mclhZv1tswtCBDHTTG374+gwavXegnpJ66m6k6KGb27lpVk8r0jBJgK lzEpJ/k7I0pOMWAUpE1HfXuWRidI7SaNxuCGZpWC0ymijkkDKeoDVh0OntQPdGh8LtVo oJycV2nBLoaApRRJkkJJC/M4H/Azzc+Qs1YGprMO2JAuJ2sDrLMeQSkj1wod7xEVdwTZ 4L00r+QvWPsDCKEEaXOy0/rY6lN53LmIOFMiWVMkzpFS8WoeE/wZLGXAY7BhNaqO+zeb 4dvw== 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; bh=Mme1bl34JOGLvv9tuDvUNQAgm7Y7q7/B9pmbJdgQs5M=; b=LzPWLRUZVyDlVvfRvlpQ5LZK9U74TzswVdKcnGzwS2CmFtRPsgezjQeNMRkJVpergo 1/4WTHVROZl5E+eMypgAAPp+Yk/BpPFG+blQrijGTJE4byds0WBg9FyIyAj09AcUJ5LU sL/WwfEOy0U9bWptAVJdhQwodTnLtbBN2cWNGLTkKL1O/gpOW8J2zsB0Vsm9XApNGBuY 8WOrb7ZDvDuaOBiqFF5nt+aCe9qDvqrcSVIYw+S5t3X0q9I+yfhnHLuup0DmgVn3Nv0M zy7d7Obk4HRkTtcwY7jAn9kg3+NoPXJb+mG08OztrDNvo3TYNSQ2rWljjOAJPFSR6kgk SXrQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tI1/Xg/K00FhS/9WrkRedcvMdKQLoRZARMWb+u67V80HpFpAt7dY2fY727eZ3A+cobVLdR0e+WNrxmwYA== X-Received: by 10.31.50.150 with SMTP id y144mr10013598vky.94.1467391318867; Fri, 01 Jul 2016 09:41:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.159.40.163 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jul 2016 09:41:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> From: Robert Hall Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:41:58 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 16:42:00 -0000 On 6/30/16, Allen wrote: > 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. Why is it a good idea now? If you just want to automate things on a few computers, sh will run on any *nix box without installing additional software. If you want to create GUIs in X, you'll need something more complicated. Pick something that you're likely to use a lot. Any language that you know well will be more powerful than a language you don't know well.