Re: More Questions

["Gary W. Billings"<obs681@telusplanet.net>]

These are personal / religious questions...

Personally, I use perl for moving data around (including unpacking, packing,
reformatting binary data), and processing ascii information.  For doing science
(viz. heavy computing), I use C.  I've also done pretty serious numerical work
in perl, but it's not really meant for it.   Both are free on Linux systems,
and code using them can be written so as to port well.

Tcl / perltk can be used to make simple GUI's, but my preference for handling
large volumes of data is at the command line, where it can be readily scripted.


So, those are my religious beliefs.  I don't believe in imposing my belief system
on others...

Gary Billings




>Flushed with success of actually getting a disk mounted, I am now ready to

>write code.  My system actually was different from any of the examples 
>given, even the Mandrake example.  My system does not support user, only 
>auto.
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>As a 25+ year BASIC programmer, what would be a reasonable language for me

>to use write code for the kind of things I will want to do for tass?  I 
>suppose none of you will suggest BASIC, so I am ready to go for something 

>that I can adapt to easily.  Fortran and Pascal come to mind.  I would like

>something that is well debugged and where I can get good documentation.  I

>gather that there are plenty of free programs.  I am willing to spring for

>a few good reference books.  I really have a tough time looking at 
>C++.  All those curly brackets make my eyes strain, but perhaps I should 
>just hunker down and learn it.  However, I tried it several times before 
>and did not make much progress.  Possibly I can do everything I might want

>to do in Pearl or TCL??
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>Tom Droege
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