Samy Elashmawy wrote:
>
> Hi folks, Hope some of you can help me out here.
> I have dabbled in programing a bit , started out with Clarion for dos ,
> worked a little with clipper and am now currently using Borlands Delphi.
>
> I am now looking to slowly move to linux . I have gotten really tired of
> reloading windows and dealing with the "driver shuffle" and "plug and play"
> that every few months changes every thing around on you.
>
> My level of programing is somewhere between novice and intermediate. For
> what thats worth. I am real short on time , but ofton play at home . In
> other words , I really don't want to learn a whole lot of languages , but
> would rather put my time into one language that can handle what I want to do.
>
> SO IF YOU HAD ONLY ONE WHICH WOULD IT BE ?
>
> JAVA - tCL/Tkl - Perl or Other??
>
> What libs / Third Party variety extensions-addins / reporting tools /
> database tools are there for your tool of choice ??
>
> What will work with SQL ie postgres ect...
>
> Is it RAD ??
>
> Why have you choosen it ??
>
> Like I said , I want to do database apps and general business programing.
> Not games ect...
You know, fortunately, you do not need to choose between Perl, Tcl/Tk
and Java because you have them all. Perl/Tcl is an attractive
combination because of the text processing capabilities and protability
of Perl and the relative ease of creating an interface and portability
of Tcl/Tk. There are commercial solutions, the best of which I have
seen is WebObjects from Apple. There is also Web Sphere from IBM.
For a novice in programming, which is where I came from to Linux, Perl
is probably the best to start with. Yeah, it looks a little scary and
allows you to step on your own feet, but so does C without being as
flexable. As Perl's creator Larry Wall says, Perl makes great glue. It
can help you tie together all sorts of stuff, not the least of which is
databases. It even has special modules for them. It's also better than
learning shell programming, awk and sed :-)
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