Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:13:10 -0300 From: "Pedro A. M. Vazquez" <vazquez@g.unicamp.br> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: Felix Friedlander <felixphew0@gmail.com>, Allen <bsd_atog@comcast.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAF=p4zy8s%2BqqDN0MyERmVt8tzNedNnRixCVY2FLpEgoDPHLm9Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1606302028360.27414@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> <FB2CB047-D6C5-4281-8D5C-B8B51AD1FD20@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1606302028360.27414@tripel.monochrome.org>
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Does FreeBSD needs an 'official' small language? Perl is a mature language I use a lot, Python is very good, Lua is smaller than both and very good too, I'm learning Lua now. *Uma na=C3=A7=C3=A3o "que queria ser moderna" recua no tempo e se coloca ao= lado de Honduras e Paraguai como pa=C3=ADses onde "presidentes eleitos foram afasta= dos de forma question=C3=A1vel", afirmam an=C3=A1lises sobre o impeachment de D= ilma* *na DW Brasil <http://www.dw.com/pt/imprensa-alem%C3%A3-v%C3%AA-derrota-e-declara%C3%A7%C= 3%A3o-de-fal%C3%AAncia-de-um-pa%C3%ADs/a-19251950>* 2016-06-30 21:34 GMT-03:00 Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Felix Friedlander wrote: > > On 1 Jul 2016, at 07:52, Allen <bsd_atog@comcast.net> wrote: >>> >>> > [ snip ] > > 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 >>> >> >> Hi Allen, >> >> Perl may have been the language of choice 10 or even 5 years ago, but >> unless you have a specific reason I would wholeheartedly recommend Pytho= n >> as a first language. It?s incredibly easy, very powerful, the standard >> library is amazing (you can implement a full SMTP server or web server i= n >> about 10 lines of Python) and it?s available on a huge number of platfor= ms, >> including FreeBSD. >> > > [ snip ] > > I'll second Felix's recommendation of Python. I'm only now learning it > myself, although I've been doing various kinds of programming "since 'Nam= ." > Python feels extremely flexible and powerful, but I'm sure it > has its problems as with any other language. For a book, I've been using > 'Introducing Python' by Bill Lubanovic (O'Reilly, ISBN 978-1-449-35936-2)= . > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging </> ] > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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