On Friday 26 January 2001 17:21, you wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Actually I am trying to avoid falling into a quicksand. I don't want later
> when I have written the program in a specific linux-based programmig
> language, the original author of the programming language impose royalty or
> license fee.
>
> I have bought a commercial development kit last time where i end only using
> 0.1% of its capability. I'm not a good programmer. Looking at it I don't
> want to chunk out huge some of money to invest in a commercial language
> that i won't fully utilise. And certainly I don't want to fall into the
> trap of "free license" and i don't mean GPL here. I remember coming across
> a "free license" agreement that is really NOT free at all.
>
> have a nice day fellow linuxians :)
>
> Joe
> RLU# 186063
>
Well, we have ALMOST all the Free(not free) stuff off the first two disks of
our distro. If you run an expert install, you should find a host of
languages, including, but not limited to:
Python
Perl
Tcl/Tk
Ruby
Mercury
OCAML
Haskell
Scheme
Guile
Lisp
Fortran77 (via a translator to c)
Pascal(via a translator to c called p2c)
c/c++
nasm
SmallEiffel
several others, even (yecch) basic, all under free licenses or we don't put
them on
If you have done little programming and want one that is simple to start with
but has a lot of power, I would recommend Python. It has inherently clean
code and oject-oriented features, and with the aid of its extensive libraries
and bindings, power similar to the best. I use it in preference to Perl
because six months later I can still figure out how the code relates to the
task just by reading it. Python is also available on a lot of platforms
including windows, but it is more fun to program in linux where the emacs
bindings make block structure so easy to handle. I heard someone did a
similar Python editor for Windows, with autoindentation and delimiter
highlighting and neat color-coding of statement and data types, but I have
never seen it.
Civileme
You may not find these on the "Complete" edition, but you will find them on
download and Power Pack.
