----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Leach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:57 PM
Subject: Language recommendation


> Hi All,
> 
>     I want  to re-implement a widget I wrote in VB so I can run it under 
> Linux - it's time for my Photoshop to Gimp leap, the one windows app I 
> would _really_ miss right now.
>    
>     Basically it runs through jpegs, resizes them for the web, renames 
> them, and extracts some information from the EXIF to store in a csv 
> file. I was thinking that PERL is probably the language I should be 
> looking at, and learning it has been on my to-do list for a while, but 
> decided that if I was going to spend time learning a new language I 
> should ask what people here like and what works for you in a Linux 
> environment.
>     I think it comes down to PERL, python or, maybe, Jade.. but my 
> options seem much wider here than under windows and I am open to 
> anything.  It would be great if whatever the effort goes into to allows 
> a variety other types of task to be done too. I don't need to be able to 
> build anything big or especially fast.
> 
>     I am happy in OOP, php, vb and javascript and have been known to 
> produce the odd bit of C , C++ and ASP,
> 
> Merry Xmas! & mtia,
> 
> Andy

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