On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 12:52:50PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> F) Shells - The shell languages are essential knowledge.
the power of the commandline.
> G) PHP - Interpreter for web pages.
unfortunately also used for stuff better done with
python or pike.
> A) PERL - The glue which holds the Web together. A write-only language.
designed to merge shells and other commandline tools
> C) Ruby - In Japan, it's more popular than Python. Painless Smalltalk.
object oriented perl
> B) Python - Created by a Monty Python fan.
usefull syntax.
> E) Pike - Space blank for Martin to fill in.
:-) the language with character
typed, object security
> D) Smalltalk - The Daddy of all Object-Oriented Languages. Powerful stuff.
H) Lisp - granddad of functional languages (?) emacs is written in lisp.
i have ordered the languages in terms of the complexity or size of
applications i deem them usefull for. that is, shell is only good for
small stuff, like batch processing of commands.
anything that has more logic and variable manipulation than execution of
commands is better done in perl.
pike supports true data encapsulation which is needed for some apps.
i don't know anything about smalltalk and not much about lisp, but i
give them the bonus greater maturity.
greetings, martin.
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