OT: Should I learn bash/C/python/perl/other

[Dotan Cohen]

On 8/11/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 13:43 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > sebb wrote:
> > > i totally agree with paul, python is the way to go. it has very strong
> > > extensions for everything (check pygame!) and is yet very portable.
> >
> > Actually, Paul said (while recommending it)
> > that python was _not_ very portable.
> 
> Well it's portable in that it's available on multiple platforms, but the
> architects of the language don't worry too much about breaking old
> programs with new versions of python, at least not when compared with
> perl. In other words, an old perl program is still likely to work on a
> new version of perl, which might not be the case for an old python
> program and a new version of python.
> 
> Paul.

While I had not considered that before, I think that I would stay away
from a language that forced me to rewrite my code when I update. I
guess that makes python a no-no, leaving me to consider bash/ C/ perl.
Otherwise, python looked to be the way to go. Of them all, the perl
tutorials that I found today seem to be the most newbie-friendly. I'll
try and put together a few small scripts with perl and C, to get a
feel for them as was suggested by Glenn and Thomas.

Thanks, everybody!

Dotan Cohen
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