Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:51:12 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Philipp Huber <uebs@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what language should i learn next ? Message-ID: <20000907165111.B4757@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000907173343.uebs@gmx.at>; from uebs@gmx.at on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:33:43PM -0700 References: <20000907150644.A4202@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <XFMail.000907173343.uebs@gmx.at>
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:33:43PM -0700, Philipp Huber wrote: | On 07-Sep-00 j mckitrick wrote: | > | > I want to set the goal of learning a new language in the next couple | > of | > months. These are the ones I am considering: | > | > perl | > python | > shell scripting (I am weak in this) | > java (no freebsd support yet, right?) | | depends on what you want to do. | my personal favourite is perl, but i don't know python anyway. | you could try all of them and see which one you like most. I want to avoid that, if possible. I'd like to make an informed decision from the beginning so I can use my time efficiently. I guess what I want to do is learn the tools that require some skill and that are efficient for common jobs on a unix box. That way, if the door ever opens for a unix career, I would have valuable skills that would set me apart. But I would also like my knowledge to be useful now, on my little non-networked laptop. Frankly, since I am not running on a network anyway, I first need to think of some problems that need to be solved, or some tasks that can be automated. jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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