On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote: > On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: > >> As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming >> languages are mostly used? > > C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several > others. I don't recall seeing any COBOL, though :-) > >> I am asking as it helps to give people an >> idea of what they need to learn or will learn as part of helping. > > The *nix kernels, and most of the command programs, are written in C, so > C's a must. Java and python look like a kinda fixed up, OOP C, so > they're not too hard to deal with once you know C. > > I don't know what ruby is like, but I see a lot of it in the mirrors and > stuff. > > Perl is happily off on it's own. "There's more than one way..." Boy is > there ever. Nice to write, but it's next to impossible to understand > other people's code. Python, IMHO, seems to be creeping up to replace it. > > Bash reminds one of the syntax of the 1950s. The pits, but necessary. > And it's often the best way to make something happen right now. >
'/bin/sh' on Debian is Dash. So I would say, general shell scripting ability and POSIX compliance (Dash/Posh). Avoiding Bashism if Bash is to be used. -- John Doe
