From: John Carter Date: 2003-01-17T10:36:37+09:00 Subject: Re: most popular unix scripting language On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 9:23 AM +0900 1/17/03, dambalaMaster wrote: > >does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language? > > I think you'll likely find that sh is the winner by rather a long way... sh is sort of like bad breath. A lot of people have it, but it's not very popular. Popular in the sense of "Number of People who know & like it", I would say Perl. Popular in the sense of "Most attractive at first blush", I would say Python. Popular in the sense of "Inspiring the most devoted following", I would say Ruby. Poplar in the sense of "Tall and Leafy", I would say Poplog. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz New Zealand Good Ideas: Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org - The best of perl,python,scheme without the pain. Valgrind - http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ - memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux Free your books - http://www.bookcrossing.com Memtest86 - http://www.memtest86.com - Free standalone, excellent memory tester for PC's.