Warren Young wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 9:37 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 12/13/2010 10:14 AM, Sven Aluoor wrote:
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> Your next step should be to something simpler, and with less of a
> difference to your existing experience.
>
>> Perl is probably the easiest next step for someone who has shell
>> scripting experience.
>
> Seconded.
Thirded. And if you eventually want to program, perl uses C syntax
(mostly... but then, almost everything does these days, with exceptions
like python), and it's not a big stretch to move. The advantage of going
to perl is a) it's a scripting language, and so you get faster debugging,
and b) all versions of *Nix have it installed, and, speaking of being
platform-agnostic, it runs on all versions of WinDoze.
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> I say this as someone who has written substantial programs in a dozen
> different programming languages, and sampled probably a dozen more.
> Perl is your best next step.
Same here. Six heavily, a couple not much, and all shells. And M$
batchfiles, long ago.
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Try perl, you'll like it. We'll ignore the fact that, back in the
nineties, at the end of the 104 or so page man page, the secret was that
it stood for P(athologically) E(clectic) R(ubbish) L(ister)....
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