On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM, David Sommerseth
<dazo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13/12/10 17:32, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> On Monday, December 13, 2010 11:14:24 am Sven Aluoor wrote:
>>> What programming language should I learn?
>>
>> Python. ÂYou can find useful examples of python code throughout CentOS, beginning the yum itself. ÂGet yourself a copy of 'Dive into Python' (can be had as a free download, legalling) and, well, dive into python!
>
> I completely agree! ÂPython is really worth looking at. ÂAnd a lot of
> the tools on RHEL/CentOS are written in Python.
>
> <http://diveintopython.org/>
>
> I see quite some people suggest Perl. ÂI've been in that camp as well,
> but I personally find Python much more intuitive than Perl, and also a
> lot more consistent. ÂPerl is truly like paint, you can splash the
> colours around just like you want. ÂThe learning curve for Perl is quite
> higher than Python in my experience.
Did you learn Perl first? Then learning something else on top of that
is easier. Programming languages share lots of concepts.
>
> "Dive into Python" helped me to really get started, and it went fast
> with this book.
Modern Perl: http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/ is also free
to download as a pdf file. Great book to get started.
> Python enforces you to be more consistent, which is not a bad thing if
> you want to understand better what you are doing in the very beginning.
> ÂLater on Perl, Ruby, C#, Java, C/C++ might be a good alternatives, as
> they probably are much stronger in a lot of fields for more complex tasks.
use strict;
use warnings;
if you write Perl and do not use that, you will have problems, yes.
> But remember each tool has its own use case. ÂYou don't need a hammer
> when you have screws. ÂIt's the same with programming languages. ÂAnd
> Python and Perl are often used as the "Swiss Army Knife". ÂUseful for a
> lot of ad-hoc and not too heavy routine tasks, but you won't rely on it
> when going hunting in the wilderness.
well, Perl helps me daily on the wilderness of my job. I do not
understand the analogy, but it probably is my fault ;-)
>
> kind regards,
>
> David Sommerseth
--
regards,
natxo
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