Programing in linux

[adair]

I know pythons in linux, WHat other programming lang's are?(i searched, but could not find the answers)

[X_console]

You must not be searching at the right place. Use http://www.google.com/linux

Here's one that popped up: http://www.helsinki.fi/~rvaranka/Linux/HOWTO/Languages.html

[Riley]

In linux C/C++ is god. The fastest and most powerful language out there. Perl is also good, but there are tons of others that you may or may not be interested in.

[MarcRochkind]

Riley: I'll buy the "fastest" part.

But, with what yardstick are you measuring "most powerful?"

[Stuka]

Not to answer for Riley, but the usual answer to that question is "Capable of doing anything you want, and performing the operations faster than another language (if you're willing to invest the time)." Of course, technically, that can really only be said of assembler/raw machine code, but as C is, in effect "portable assembler" (with a good compiler suite, of course!), the same argument can be made of C. Now, is C/C++ the BEST solution for a given problem - not always (as I'm sure you're aware, having checked out your site ;)). But, in terms of overall power, it's hard to knock C or C++ (unless your definition of power is different, of course).

[Rüpel]

i think you have to adopt to your concrete problem.

sometimes scripting is easer (bash,perl)

sometimes you're writing for the web (php)

sometimes speed of execution is essential (C)

sometimes you're developing a huge GUI-project (C++)

you can't say: this is the one language, that fits all - it really depends on the problem and your demands.

[Riley]

I would still stick with the answer C/C++ seeing as how they are pretty easy to program in and in Linux assembly language has no advantage over C whereas in Windows assembly does. Scripting may be easier and slightly easier to maintain, but for applications and server side web development C/C++ can't be beat.

The difference between our answers is in what we see as best. I see power and speed to be best others look at how easy to code a language is.