Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:52:43 -0400 From: Allen <bsd_atog@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org>
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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
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