* On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 08:37:06AM +1100, john gibbons wrote: > What would be the easiest programming language to learn? Important > variables: (1) my technical knowledge of Linux is limited though I love > the philosophy of openness and (2) I am 80 years old, so at my age > 'simple' also implies 'soon'. Not being pessimistic about my life span, > but a race is on.
As other people have said "it depends" ie it depends on what you want to use it for. I'm now more of a sysadmin than a programmer, so I use shell scripting for most stuff - dirty, but quick. Also means as I get better as using the command line, my shell scripting gets better, and vice versa. When I need the heavy guns for a sysadmin task, I use Perl or Python, depending on which library I want to use, or which language the example I'm copying is written in :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
