Re: [SLUG] Trying to start a Project

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Thu Dec 29 2005 - 18:38:36 EST


Christopher Reyes wrote:
> Ok, I'm kinda tired of sitting on the sidelines, and I would like to
> start my own project, basicly it would a be a piece of software to be
> the front end to your media on your computer, kinda like windows media
> center, but for Linux in general.I'm kinda going crazy because I really
> dont have any programing skills, except HTML, JavaScript and a Little of
> SQL, so I need to find ppl that have skills in programming and would
> want to help, also I'm looking for some input on what programming
> language it should be in what media it should play etc.
>
> Chris

If you don't necessarily intend for this to be web-based, then python is
a good choice. Perl is a possibility, but Ed Centanni once called Perl a
read-only language. He was right, in my opinion. Anyway, python makes
things easier than C, and has all kinds of bindings to various modules
to do "extracurricular" things.

If you want it web-based, PHP is your best bet.

Others will probably argue for Ruby or Haskell or something. I'm about
done learning computer languages, so I stopped with PHP and Python. When
these other "new-fangled" languages get as popular as Perl, Python, C,
Java and PHP put together, then I'll look at them. ;-}

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Paul M. Foster
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