From: Sven Aluoor <aluoor at gmail.com> > I have more than 12 years experience with UNIX system administration, > but I am too stupid for programming. My only programming experience is > shell scripting. I tried to learn Java, but don't understand it > because it is too complicated for my limited brainpower. > What programming language should I learn? > A friend said that C-Sharp (Mono) is very simple. Is this true? Depends on what you want to develop (web/system/...). But if you want "simple": php, python, ruby, perl... logo... ;D Free books: http://www.mindview.net/Books/ http://greenteapress.com/ JD