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

[Richard England]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>On 8/14/05, Justin Willmert <justin at jdjlab.com> wrote:
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>>Dotan,
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>>I'm glad to here I was a help to you. As a little side comment, I
>>thought C++ would be a couple more years in the future when I just
>>suddenly took up learning it. I bet you gravitate towards learning C/C++
>>before you know it.
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>>Start out with realistic expectations and you'll be happily rewarded.
>>Happy Coding!
>>Justin
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>You're probably right. If it weren't for the memory managment, I
>probably would have started with C/C++. It seems that prgraming in C
>is removing another layer of insulation from between the programer and
>the OS. I like that. But I must learn before I start to mess things up
>with it.
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>As a side note, another poster requested that I write back with my
>findings on a perl tutorial. I must say: they are all out of date. It
>seems that somewhere around 2002 people stopped being interested in
>perl. Probably becase of php, because around 2001-2002 we see all the
>php tutorials popping up. So I am looking for a hebrew book on perl. I
>think that O'reilley has one. I would recommend to that same poster,
>and anybody else, to get a book if he wants to learn perl.
>
>Dotan Cohen
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Might also have to do with the impending new version of perl (version 
6).  It might be that those inclined to write tutorials are waiting.  If 
you have a tutorial from the 2000- 2002 period, it's going to be just 
fine for perl v5.x.

--R