Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 07:50:18 -0400 From: Ultima <ultima1252@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD Message-ID: <CANJ8om4QL3Bg=OLsxafWE%2B0S8fjDeVgMdErw9POX2uEW1a_=-A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALfReycV8Wn%2BTY1AiFZYortHrWFhA2xp8zXJ=KG159x%2BcT0YaQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> <20160701095652.17036e6fe1e467ee64adc9f7@sohara.org> <CALfReycV8Wn%2BTY1AiFZYortHrWFhA2xp8zXJ=KG159x%2BcT0YaQ@mail.gmail.com>
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If perl has been decided, I suggest learning rperl instead of regular perl. They more or less the same, except in that rperl has a stricter syntax usage (correct me if I'm wrong, not an expert). It will compile it into a c blob and be much faster than regular perl. One of the compile settings was 400ish times faster? Yeah... if I were to learn perl, it would definitely be rperl. On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:22 AM, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > Depending on the problems you are tackling it may also be worth thinking > about things at a higher level as well. eg if you are doing systems > maintenance/automation look at something like ansible. It's not programming > in an traditional sense, but it can make things a lot easier to do, > especially if you are doing things at scale. There are other config > management tools out there (chef, puppet, salt, fabric etc) but ansible is > relatively easy to setup and get going, and will utilise anything you learn > in python very well. Don't be put off by the fact you may only have a small > number of machines, it still makes life easier. > > On 1 July 2016 at 09:56, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:52:43 -0400 > > Allen <bsd_atog@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > First off FreeBSD supports most programming languages from BASIC > to > > Prolog by way of C, Smalltalk, LISP, Haskell and Forth among many others. > > > > Here's the thing - each of the languages I've listed is an > example > > of a particular programming paradigm (there are many other examples of > each > > paradigm). If your aim is to learn about programming in general then I > > would advise learning as many different paradigms as possible. If your > aim > > is to do a bit of programming then pick a language - any language - and > > learn to write something useful. > > > > Python and Perl are both easy to learn OO/structured languages, > > python attempts to force good style, perl is more of an anything goes > > approach. Learn one and the other is easy to learn. > > > > -- > > Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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