Thanks a lot.
I'll check with the distro disks.
Joe
RLU# 186063
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:07 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Free programming language
>
>
> On Friday 26 January 2001 17:21, you wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> Well, we have ALMOST all the Free(not free) stuff off the first
> two disks of
> our distro. If you run an expert install, you should find a host of
> languages, including, but not limited to:
>
> Python
> Perl
> Tcl/Tk
> Ruby
> Mercury
> OCAML
> Haskell
> Scheme
> Guile
> Lisp
> Fortran77 (via a translator to c)
> Pascal(via a translator to c called p2c)
> c/c++
> nasm
> SmallEiffel
> several others, even (yecch) basic, all under free licenses or we
> don't put
> them on
>
> If you have done little programming and want one that is simple
> to start with
> but has a lot of power, I would recommend Python. It has
> inherently clean
> code and oject-oriented features, and with the aid of its
> extensive libraries
> and bindings, power similar to the best. I use it in preference to Perl
> because six months later I can still figure out how the code
> relates to the
> task just by reading it. Python is also available on a lot of platforms
> including windows, but it is more fun to program in linux where the emacs
> bindings make block structure so easy to handle. I heard someone did a
> similar Python editor for Windows, with autoindentation and delimiter
> highlighting and neat color-coding of statement and data types,
> but I have
> never seen it.
>
> Civileme
>
>
> You may not find these on the "Complete" edition, but you will
> find them on
> download and Power Pack.
>
