Re: what are the "standard" programming tools available in Debian?
rich wrote:
>
> Howdy everyone,
>
> I was wondering: what are the tools available in Debian that one would
> consider part of the "standard" toolbox of a programmer?
>
> I have programmed for several years in BASIC, and dabbled Fortran and
> Pascal. Now I want to learn C, Perl, and (maybe) Java... mostly for
> relatively simple tasks around my lab such as coming up with programs to
> generate forms for random assignment of experimental groups, taking raw
> data and manipulating it in various ways into forms suitable for pasting
> into a statistics package and presentation, etc. In addition, I'm trying
> to design a lab web-page and would like to be able to have collaboraters
> post and retrieve data from an SQL-type system...
>
> My basic question is: for these languages and tasks, what tools would
> make my life easier? I know about Gdb, but haven't figured out how to
> use it yet... what else does Debian offer me?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rich
>
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You might want to take a look at Python (http://www.python.org)
as an alternative to Perl. Your BASIC and Pascal knowledge will
transfer better.
- Kris
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