[Cialug] Question?

[Renegade Muskrat]

 >What kind of programming (esp. Linux/Unix programming) do people on 
the
 >list do, and with what languages? I do Unix commandline application
 >development in C, C++ (very small amounts) and Perl primarily.

I do almost exclusively Perl. Occasionally i do stuff in sh (can you 
even call that programming?) and on even more rare occasion, C. I only 
use C anymore for when timing or speed are critical. The last C program 
i can recall writing was a couple years ago; it needed to do things 
that were synchronized to the clock at millisecond accuracy and i was 
worried about other languages being fast enough to run on the hardware 
i had available. I've been thinking about learning Python. I've also 
been thinking about switching to Scheme for web scripts since it is 
relatively frequent that i'm doing web programming and Scheme (or 
another Lisp variant) would make the job easier. Unfortunately, i 
haven't used Scheme in awhile so i'd need to spend some a day or two 
relearning it.
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