Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: programming...? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:42:04 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <5b01869b-a71c-44db-b6e5-e4afdd6c561e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38059 On 2/21/2018 6:29 AM, Robert Spanjaard wrote: > On 21-02-18 01:47, Kiwi User wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 01:16:08 +0100, Robert Spanjaard wrote: >>> Why would you buy a Pi to learn a general programming language? I can >>> imagine buying one for specific applications like Android Things, but C >>> and Python work just as well on his current system, with his favorite >>> editor. >> >> A cheap and quite capable machine to use for finding out about non-MS >> software. There are a LOT of UNIX/Linux systems out there and a lot of >> RDBMS that aren't SQL Server. Ditto for web servers. > > So you agree that "to learn C, Python and even assembler", buying a > second computer is unneccessary? > > And to try non-MS stuff, he could install Linux on a different partition > or even a USB-stick, use a VM, use CygWin, or install the Linux Bash > Shell. I'm not familiar with databases, but I can't imagine SQL being > the only one available for Windows. Practically all databases are available for Windows: MS SQLServer, Oracle DB, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE, all the Java ones, various embedded (MS Acces, MS SQLserver CE, FireBiord, SqLite). Arne