Thanks for the reply.
Actually I am trying to avoid falling into a quicksand. I don't want later
when I have written the program in a specific linux-based programmig
language, the original author of the programming language impose royalty or
license fee.
I have bought a commercial development kit last time where i end only using
0.1% of its capability. I'm not a good programmer. Looking at it I don't
want to chunk out huge some of money to invest in a commercial language that
i won't fully utilise. And certainly I don't want to fall into the trap of
"free license" and i don't mean GPL here. I remember coming across a "free
license" agreement that is really NOT free at all.
have a nice day fellow linuxians :)
Joe
RLU# 186063
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D. Stark - eSN
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 9:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [expert] Free programming language
>
>
> He's right. Anything YOU create in C (or C++ or Perl or whatever)
> belongs to
> YOU, regardless of who wrote the compiler/interpreter. Understand, though,
> that any libraries you dynamically link to (or perl modules) of course
> aren't your own, and may fall under some other license. Just because you
> develop with OSS doesn't mean that you have to produce OSS. I take it you
> want to create something to be sold?
>
> For a scripting style language (quick prototyping and useful in cgi), I
> recommend perl. There are others, but none with perl's flexibility. There
> are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice, eh?
>
> For programming, take your pick, but Mandrake comes with gcc,
> which is thier
> ANSI compliant C compiler. If you use that, all your C or C++
> (use gcc++ for
> that) programming books from school will be worth something.
>
> Derek Stark
> IT / Linux Admin
> eSupportNow
> xt 8952
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 6:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Free programming language
>
>
> On Friday 26 January 2001 08:16, you wrote:
> > Hi Linuxians,
> >
> > I need a list of free programming language and scripting language
> available
> > for Linux. Free as in for any purpose. Don't want any hanky panky free
> > license.
>
> Huh?
>
> If you mean GPL, it is there to prevent ugly little comedies like theft of
> someone's college homework program making a commercial killing significant
> enough to produce some of the world's richest folks. Perl has
> two licenses
> and you may use either.
>
> The only restriction on the free license is that if you modify/distribute
> the
> software you obtained under the license, you have to pass on the
> freedoms to
> use, modify, distribute and distribute modified versions to those you
> distribute to as well.
>
> If you did a development install of GNU/LM, you have many of the languages
> on
> your machine. Others are available by searching www.freshmeat.net,
> www.google.com, and www.sourceforge.com. In addition, you might
> want to try
> searching
>
> "computer operating systems"
>
> because there are other experimental systems out there--lots of them, that
> often have pet languages. Many of those systems and languages are totally
> free--uncopyrighted and ready to be exploited, free as in beer, not as in
> speech.
>
> Civileme
>
> >
> > If anybody have it, can you pass me the list together with
> where to obtain
> > them.
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance.
> >
> > Joe
> > RLU #186063
>
>
