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| Yeti-GBR1 2001-02-24, 5:57 pm |
| Hello everyone,
Thought I'd be polite since it's my 1st time in this one...anyway I have just finished installing Solaris 8.0 for Intel and Oh Boy is it rather feature packed...and above all it's FREE and gives you loads more features than Linux ( well it would its full blown Unix...duh).
The reason I'm posting is, Has anyone else played/installed this one yet? If so got any advice on how to set up the cgi/perl scripts on it?
Yeti the Solaris 8.0 Newbie  | |
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| Ahh, the elusive Yeti has wandered into the world of Unix. Welcome.
I got a hold of Solaris 8 about a week ago, and haven't gotten around to doing much more then installing it and getting a compatible NIC. From what I've seen it's very nice, other then lacking on hardware support. I'll let you know when I get around to using Perl (my favorite language) on it.
I don't know about Solaris being more feature packed then Linux. It's definately a more stable, mature OS, but I feel that Linux is more versatile. | |
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| When are you guys gonna learn that Python is much cooler than Perl??? Hmmph! | |
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Originally posted by Randy
When are you guys gonna learn that Python is much cooler than Perl??? Hmmph!
Nah... COBOL is the best... | |
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| OK, dude, that is no longer funny . . . I use COBOL right now at work! Python is a server-side scripting language that has a lower learning curve than Perl and is a lot easier to read and debug, which is why I like it. And please . . . don't say that C word again *shudder* . . . | |
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| I should give Python a try sometime, the syntax looks very appealing. Cobol -- there's a scary language. One of my professors showed me an accounting "script" that the college is using. It was written in Python, but once compiled into Cobol it was 6xx,000 lines long. | |
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| COBOL is wordy beyond belief . . . I once wrote a COBOL program that appended an 'x' to the end of every record in a file . . . a mere four pages long. Pythin is very clean-looking and that makes debugging and reading a simple task, so now I rarely resort to Perl unless consistency demands it. But you can download all of the development tools at www.python.org if interested and I think most distros of Linux come with an rpm that will install it if you like. | |
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| Where could I get Solaris 8 for Intel for free? I would very much appreciate any info on where to acuqire such a thing.
Thanx. | |
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| Python is definitely coming into its own, which is a very good thing, indeed.
Python 2.0 is out and if you get the version from activestate.com, you have win32 extentions, if you so desire.
If you are familiar with C++-style syntax, the language is easy to pick up.
The only thing I use perl for is to extract info from a web page and do sorting. Python can do all that and much more. Plus the documentation is excellent.
As far as Solaris 8, I have only loaded Solaris 7 and after finding out my video card was not supported, I turned it back into a linux box. I hope 8 is better with the HCL! | |
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| dmaftei 2001-04-23, 11:42 am |
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OK, dude, that is no longer funny . . . I use COBOL right now at work!
Hi Randy,
I'm really sorry you got upset because of my post; I didn't mean to offend you! (As a matter of fact, I completely forgot about this post...) I knew that you're doing COBOL programming, and I also knew that you're quite unhappy because of that. My intention was to bring a bit of fun to the situation, not to make fun of you. Please accept my apology!
Now, when you're thinking about COBOL, it must have some merits! A language invented in '58 and still in use must have something good that keeps it alive. (To my knowledge, the only language still in use and older than COBOL is FORTRAN, born in '57.) And afaik COBOL programmers are at a premium these days, so maybe your position is not as bad as it looks.
Again, I apologize if I offended you!
Cheers! | |
| Randy 2001-04-23, 11:54 am |
| Nah, you didn't offend me . . . it's just that that particular 'c' word gives me the shivers! Actually LISP is older than both COBOL and FORTRAN, and I quite like it. A pity it seems to have fallen out of favour these days . . . | |
| dmaftei 2001-04-23, 12:04 pm |
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Originally posted by Randy
it's just that that particular 'c' word gives me the shivers!
Sorry, I don't get it. What particular 'c' word?
I was wrong with COBOL's date, and you were (partialy) right about LISP:
- 1957 FORTRAN (John Backus et al.)
- 1958 ALGOL (but I don't know if ALGOL is still in use)
- 1959 LISP (started in 1958 by John McCarthy, at MIT)
- 1959 COBOL (CODASYL - Conference on Data Systems and Languages; just found out: the COBOL team was led by Grace Hopper.)
Cheers! | |
| Randy 2001-04-23, 12:28 pm |
| I thought LISP was older than both, hmm, I'll have to check up on this. the 'c' word is 'cobol'. Ugghh! | |
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| OK, thanks, I'll have a look. |
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