Extension languages
Scot L. Harris
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Sat Aug 28 21:10:22 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 16:16, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> What embedded, interpreted extension languages do people use on Fedora?
> --
> Colin Paul Adams
> Preston Lancashire
It really depends on what you want to do. Standard bash scripting may
be the right one depending on the problem.
Recently I have preferred using PHP. Not only is it great at creating
dynamic web page content but you can use it for regular shell type
scripts as well. I particularly like the array handling that it has
available. And the fact that it is very C like makes it easy to start
using. And now with PHP 5 out they have added a lot of Object Oriented
type functionality. Check out http://www.php.net they have great
examples and documentation.
perl is great for some things as well. But I found it more difficult to
get the hang of than PHP.
awk and sed have their uses as well. Don't use them as much anymore but
I used to use them all the time.
Like I said it really depends on what you need to get done. I recommend
you pick out a book or two on some of the ones mentioned above and write
some code. Best way to figure them out is to write something.
--
Scot L. Harris
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If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is
make the rubble bounce.
-- Winston Churchill
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