Quoting ghe (2019-05-24 18:14:42) > On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: > > > As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming > > languages are mostly used? > > C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several > others. I don't recall seeing any COBOL, though :-) > > > I am asking as it helps to give people an > > idea of what they need to learn or will learn as part of helping. > > The *nix kernels, and most of the command programs, are written in C, so > C's a must. Java and python look like a kinda fixed up, OOP C, so > they're not too hard to deal with once you know C. > > I don't know what ruby is like, but I see a lot of it in the mirrors and > stuff. > > Perl is happily off on it's own. "There's more than one way..." Boy is > there ever. Nice to write, but it's next to impossible to understand > other people's code. Python, IMHO, seems to be creeping up to replace it. That's plain wrong: Debian has perl at its core, and Python not. Also, your simplification of Perl is common among folks ignorant about Perl but is wrong as well: You _can_ write difficult-to-read code in Perl by by no means do you need to, and most Perl code in Debian - i.e. the thousands of CPAN modules, does not use a difficult-to-read coding style. You don't need to learn _any_ specific language in order to help out with Debian: https://www.debian.org/intro/help - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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