[Chester LUG] which programming language

[David Holden]

On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Stuart Burns wrote:
> Here at work I have been given a task of building a program that does
> general house keeping tasks on an image gallary (several gigs of images,
> all mundane im afraid ;) ).
>
> So I went and broke out the old pascal compiler, and realised it was so
> 1980s (which is when I last used it ;) ) and that it wouldn't cut it. I
> need to create an image gallary, but none of the ones availabe either a) Do
> what we want or b) too flakey/too many "toy" features
>
> Looking around I do need to learn a bit about programming as it stands atm.
> I am not a *good* programmer, I just tend to hack bits together. However I
> have several programs to help me here that I have concieved that would do
> general admin task but I don't know what language is going to be best to
> write them in and theres no way on this earth im going to touch .Net !
>
> I was thinking Perl, but its just so "strange" or maybe Java. I'm not
> really doing anything fancy but I really want to get coding. I did some
> very very basic Java back at Uni, but its all forgotten now, although I do
> remember about Objects, inheritance etc etc.
>
> Any advice ?

I would go for one of the dynamic languages, e.g. Perl, Ruby, Python etc.. 

I wouldn't go near Mono to many IP issues.

I would think Perl still has the largest set of library modules. Ruby is the 
buzz language at the moment and is nice to look at.

  Dave.


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