saurabh das wrote: > helps me to access the net. And Sayamindu thanks for > the article on " why GNU/Linux and not Linux " thats > an eyeopener for me . Guys any place to give tests on > Linux coz brainbench is pay stuff , any other place , ^^^^^ Reeeally convinced, were you? not me either! nor Linus! nor any but RHS and a few(very few) camp-followers :).
Open Source is about source sharing - NOT about doctrinare beliefs thereof. RHS is to be respected for being the original author of the BEST existing compiler, free or otherwise as well as several other such creations - not because of the endless 'free' vs 'open' debates that he has generated and continues to fuel. > whats the simplest and easiest book to shell > programming ? strongly recommend taking up Perl - it will satisfy 99% of needs for scripting and runs on most platforms including MS as well as all popular and many very obscure ones. O'Rielly has some excellent books on Perl - but I recommend getting your feet wet w/ any of several free on-line tutorials and see if you like it - Perl is quite unlike any other language. Its creator, Larry Wall, was trained as a linguist and not a mathematician - hence its unusual distinctions. You may, however, need bash|sh|csh|kron scripting on some very rare occasions such as writing boot scripts or on systems that don't/won't support Perl. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
