On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:18 AM, David Sommerseth <dazo at users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 13/12/10 17:32, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Monday, December 13, 2010 11:14:24 am Sven Aluoor wrote: >>> What programming language should I learn? >> >> Python. You can find useful examples of python code throughout CentOS, beginning the yum itself. Get yourself a copy of 'Dive into Python' (can be had as a free download, legalling) and, well, dive into python! > > I completely agree! Python is really worth looking at. And a lot of > the tools on RHEL/CentOS are written in Python. > > <http://diveintopython.org/> > > I see quite some people suggest Perl. I've been in that camp as well, > but I personally find Python much more intuitive than Perl, and also a > lot more consistent. Perl is truly like paint, you can splash the > colours around just like you want. The learning curve for Perl is quite > higher than Python in my experience. But you learn so much from *FIXING* Perl.......