[prog] what tools should i use for porgramming?

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 23:41, Bowen, Tricia wrote:
> A Linux box with Emacs installed is always a good start. You have several
> programming languages to choose from. The most popular are Perl
> (http://www.perl.org), Python (http://www.python.org), and Java
> (http://www.java.com, http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/ and
> http://www.beanshell.org). Enjoy.

vi, Tricia. :)

Ok. Editor wars aside, it depends on what you want to do with your
program, or why you are trying to learn programming. Just deciding 'I
want to learn programming' will leave you with a huge range of choices
and no idea why you'd want to pick which of them.



Jenn V.
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