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Linux Pocket Guide
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Linux Pocket Guide

by Daniel J. Barrett
February 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
200 pages
5h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Beyond Shell Scripting

Shell scripts are fine for many purposes, but Linux comes with much more powerful scripting languages, as well as compiled programming languages. Here are a few.

Language

Program

To get started…

Perl

perl

man perlhttp://www.perl.com/

Python

python

man pythonhttp://www.python.org/

C, C++

gcc

man gcchttp://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/

Java

javac[a]

http://java.sun.com/

FORTRAN

g77

man g77http://www.gnu.org/software/fortran/fortran.html

Ada

gnat

info gnathttp://www.gnu.org/software/gnat/gnat.html

[a] Not included in Fedora, nor many other Linux distros.

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