>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Rein <trein@umich.edu> writes:
Tony> On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 18:26, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
>>
>>
>> But let's suppose that I want to learn programming
>> (perhaps to compile kernels, etc.) - what would be a
>> good start? Symbolic logic? (Where to get a good
>> instruction on that one?) C++? ... Slip? What language
>> is the one most widely used for Linux?
>> Thnx, Hrthstn.
>>
>>
Tony> As others have pointed out, you do not need to be a
Tony> programmer to configure and compile the Linux kernel. You
Tony> don't even have to be able to read source code. Go to
Tony> http://debian.org and follow the documentation links.
Tony> If you want to learn programming, Perl is a fun language.
Correction: If you want to learn programming, Perl is the *wrong*
language.
Take a look at Python.
(Someone mentioned Bruce Eckel's books (www.mindview.com) on C++ and
Java... incidentially, Bruce is a *huge* fan of Python :-)
Bye, J
PS: Really not wanting to start a flamewar here... but "Python is
executable pseudocode, Perl is executable line-noise". ;-)
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