On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 12:30:03 PM UTC+5:30, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:35:25 -0700 > David Christensen wrote: > > > On 04/12/2015 01:33 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:> OK, thank you, I will > > definitely consider Perl also, as I already know > > > a little and have a few books on it. > > > > I'd advise learning one language well, where "well" includes security > > best practices. Understand that learning any modern language takes a > > lot of time and effort. So pick one that is good at solving the > > kinds of problems that you are motivated to work on, because the > > going will get tough and you'll have to find the tenacity to struggle > > through. > > I can see the logic in that. The issue with that is that I need them > for two separate things - I want to learn C to get a deeper > understanding of how Linux works, and I was initially thinking about > Python for sysadmin tasks that I can't or don't know how to do in shell > scripts.
One way to fry a brain is to learn C. Another way to fry the brain is to struggle with regular expressions. Unless you like a double-fried brain I suggest doing strictly one at a time. 20+ years ago I wrote a rant on why teaching (and ∴ learning) C causes grief: http://blog.languager.org/2013/02/c-in-education-and-software-engineering.html In one way it shows a lot of traps and pitfalls of beginners. It also recommends better paradigms than C for learning programming. If python had existed then I would have recommended it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/180d18cc-3e20-4013-af27-d4f0c83e1...@googlegroups.com
