Extension languages

[Scot L. Harris]

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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