On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 16:16, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > What embedded, interpreted extension languages do people use on Fedora? > -- > Colin Paul Adams > Preston Lancashire It really depends on what you want to do. Standard bash scripting may be the right one depending on the problem. Recently I have preferred using PHP. Not only is it great at creating dynamic web page content but you can use it for regular shell type scripts as well. I particularly like the array handling that it has available. And the fact that it is very C like makes it easy to start using. And now with PHP 5 out they have added a lot of Object Oriented type functionality. Check out http://www.php.net they have great examples and documentation. perl is great for some things as well. But I found it more difficult to get the hang of than PHP. awk and sed have their uses as well. Don't use them as much anymore but I used to use them all the time. Like I said it really depends on what you need to get done. I recommend you pick out a book or two on some of the ones mentioned above and write some code. Best way to figure them out is to write something. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. -- Winston Churchill
