Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am just going to start learning perl, but i have about tcl that it is easy. So , i am confused that whether to go for tcl or perl. I am just learning it as my interest, but still in future which one of these will benefit me. Also please guide me about tk, can we make GUI based applications using perl.

Thanks in advance

Sarbjit

There are no good or bad things. You just need to understand that some things might be better than the others for some purposes. Like spoon might be better to eat soup but knife might be better to cut a carrot.

Agreed.

No one can advise you what is best. What is "best" is what is best for you. What is "best" for you might not be best for someone else.

Do your homework and decide on your own.

We think all operating systems, programming languages, and scripting languages are "good" and each one has strengths and weaknesses.

As a side note, I used to program in C and used KSH for system admin, then I really got into PERL. Now I am focused on PHP. All are "good". None is "better" than the other. I just happen to be busy on web-server based projects which are LAMP configurations, Linux, Apache2, MySQL, PHP.

tcl is not commonly used to do system admin whereas Perl is. Plus Perl has lots of ready made modules you can use at CPAN. another language you can look at is Python. All can do GUI.

Depends on the job you are trying to do. Each language has it's good and bad points, niceties and quirks. You will have to evaluate your requirement and use the right tool for the right job.
For example, you may learn to drive the best car in the world, but if your requirement is to transport some stuff to an island across the ocean, then that car is useless.

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