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[R. Alan Monroe]

From: Sebastian Hans <hanss@in.tum.de>

Subject: Re: Which language will use? 
From: grante@visi.com (Grant Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps

In article <pan.2003.07.24.21.22.16.597297@mtco.com>, Tom Felker wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:42:51 +0800, Eric Chan wrote:
> 
>> Dear ALL,
>> 
>> I am a new baby of using Linux. I want to ask which programming language 
>> should use for writing Linux application.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Well, what will your app do?

Dude, you've got your priorities all wrong.  Here's the proper
order for things:

 1) Pick development platform: Linux
 2) Pick language: Python
 3) Pick GUI library: GTK or wxWindows
 4) Write program
 5) Figure out what program does

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