Re: Hi ..

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Julio [iso-8859-1] César León Cuya wrote:

> I am also a physician with some ( please read: minimal ) IT expertise who sat
> comfortably idle in the background of the list. I was slowly trying to build
> up my programming skills while working in my full time job - we all know how
> much time consuming a thing like this could be. I take the freedom to share
> my thoughts ( some might say "ruminations" ), "riding" on coleage Ahmar mail,
> just to deliver some start points that a medical doctor/student should try
> IMHO to learn before commiting with debian in particular, and free software

Nice to have such members on the list.

> reading the installations scripts inside the debs, I *think* I understand
> them. I personally recommend Python and Tcl/Tk. Yes, maybe they are not the
> best choices,

There is no best choice for a language, but there are often languages
that are apropriate for a certain problem.  Python has proven to be
apropriate in several fields and I would like to recommend this.  I
would personally hesitate to recommend Tcl/Tk.  Most of the Tcl/Tk programs
I know have an ugly user interface and I would regard it as suboptimal
for your purpose.

> - And the last thing a medical guy should learn is to program in C. To me it
> is esotherism, but some day I think I can retribute with my efforts to the
> community.

You listed a lot of interesting points I have nothing to add for the
moment.  An learning C should be really the *last* thing if you did all
the other things - IMHO its not really a requirement and may be you
spend your time on more interestings things and ask somebody else if
some parts of your code need to be rewritten in C.

Kind regards

            Andreas.

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