Hi Dana Yes, Linux is a must. Cheers Paulo danaf at drfconsulting.com wrote: > I appreciate everyone's input. > > I see the consensus in languages, > though not in any order, is > > Perl, Python, Java, C/C++ > > and it seems I need to become > competent in Linux/Unix. > > Thanks, > Dana > > -----Original Message----- > From: bioedu-bounces+danaf=drfconsulting.com at bioinformatics.org > [mailto:bioedu-bounces+danaf=drfconsulting.com at bioinformatics.org]On > Behalf Of J.W. Bizzaro > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 3:04 PM > To: Education in Bioinformatics > Subject: Re: [BioEdu] Lanuages and environments > > > Here's a poll on the languages that practitioners are interested in > learning: > > http://bioinformatics.org/poll/index.php?dispid=16&vo=16 > (#1 Python, #2 Perl, #3 Java, #4 C/C++, ...) > > It's not a poll on which languages are actually *used*, but there should be > (if not now, then someday) a good correlation. > > Jeff > > Kevin Karplus wrote: > >> I believe that the most common programming languages in bioinformatics >> are perl, c, c++, java, and python, more or less in that order. >> >> > > -- > J.W. Bizzaro > Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org) > E-mail: jeff at bioinformatics.org > Phone: +1 508 890 8600 > -- > _______________________________________________ > BioEdu mailing list > BioEdu at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioedu > > _______________________________________________ > BioEdu mailing list > BioEdu at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioedu >