On Thursday 19 May 2005 09:15, onkar mahajan wrote:

I want to make a career in embedded sys.,Sys programming.. Will learning Perl help me in long terms .

In embedded systems both hardware and software are very tightly coupled. Hence abstraction layers are done away with or at best very minimal. There is no room (performance, primary and secondary storage etc.) for a rudimentary file system, let alone VM and intepreted languages. You are left with the option of c or assembly. However all embedded systems have to talk to humans, usually via a PC. So perl or python is most certainly useful.

If yes which extension of perl should i learn.

Ask Philip Tellis. He is the Yoda on perl.

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