=== Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:10:38 +0200 === Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You do know that PHP has a command-line mode, and you don't need a > > browser or server to use it, right? > > > > Paul. > > Yes, I know that. But I am looking for something more flexible, > something more oriented for file manipulation and similar stuff, not > for creating just text output, which is the goal of php. > > I 'could' get away with what I am doing now in php, but I intend to > use linux for a long time, and I want to know how to give it my own > instructions, not just run a program that someone else wrote to solve > her specific problem. I find that to be able to really _use_ the > computer I must know how to speak it's language, to give it commands. > I went googleing to figure out what language I must speak to the > computer, and found many. So I thought that I'd ask here, what is a > prefered language? I want something that I will be able to use on > other machines as well, which is another reason why I don't want to > use php, as not many home machines have it installed. > > Furthering my research, it would seem that perl is good for this, as > it appears to be installed in many more machines than python. Or > should I go with C? lso, as I understand it, if I write in C I can > compile for both windows and linux. Is that correct? > > Dotan I think you have to figure out for your own what you are really interested in, but i will try to give some advise. Remember that C is used for os-programming. I want recommand to _use_ a simpler scripting pl first. Python is really good for such a purpose. You can make use of it in yoor daily exercises and have a lot of fun. Definitly you should know about shell-programming which will only take you a bit of time to get the basics, so that you are able to do simple task at your prompt, modify your initscripts and some others sh-executable files on your linux. Now just type : $ info bash $ info python $ info libc find some interesting stuff and ... t r y i t o u t! Thomas (So.. sometimes my english is really worse)
