About programing, a general question

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Parshwa Murdia wrote:

> The primary interest for which the latest software technology has lured me
> much is to know about how I can efficiently write the code (despite of my
> job of other field) but simultaneously I would be pleased if the same piece
> of code and its generation becomes the reason of knowing how exactly the
> world of communications is  working! That much of the knowledge I am having
> that the entire world is working on '0' and '1' as everything is going to
> convert to it and then to electromagnetic signal (for communications) but
> the only thing to know at first is how to write the code. Secondary things
> (at later stage) would be that how that program is getting converted into a
> sting of '0' and '1' which only the computer understands and transmits
> through wire (as an EM wave). So at times, and it is the high time, that
> despite of the fact I get very less time, this technology has become a
> driving force for me that it makes me to think how a code is working?

Then the sequence is python, C, assembly.
Python will let you actually write code.
It has a clean syntax that encourages code legibility.
C is much closer to the metal.
The primary python virtual machine is written C.
Operating systems are mostly written in C and assembly.
Assembly is writing for the metal.

Other posters have mentioned perl and system administration.
Python has made inroads, but perl has a major head start.
That head start includes additives suited to system administration.
System maintenance probably means learning perl to deal with existing code.
I've not learned perl.

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