which progrraming language to learn first

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:47:23PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:10:24PM +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> > essnetially i was looking into shell scripting and found it
> > interesting so i thought i'd like a crack at that.
> 
> Perl is essentially a replacement for shell scripts, and it
> gets rid of a lot of the ridiculous hoops you have to go
> through in, say, bash. In bash, to add two numbers and
> assign them to the variable x, you have to do
> 
> x = (( 1 + 2 ))

(Actually, you have to do:

  x=$((1 + 2))

)

(Cheers,)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]