Proud Person I am.
 

I am very proud of myself. Thanks to several people who helped me I have finnaly got a Redhat 9 system running on my old computer(first distro i used). the Graphical interface is nice. Now on to my question(s).

1. What programming languages are there for linux that I can use?

2. Where are some execellent programming sites using languages on linux? I dont want a website I can find on google.com because most of them are not execellent, they are usually pretty crappy, or at least from what I have seen for languages on windows based systems.

3. What programs do I already have installed with RedHat 9? I chose the "Workstation Installation" because I want to learn to program and make software.

Thanks for the info guys ahead of time.
Tuul

1. perl, eiffel, java, ruby, python, c, c++, fortran, cobol, basic, php, tcl, ml, awk and about 1000 others.

2. plenty around. we're launching programmignquestions.org soon... but i normally just hit google.

3. you'll want to install the developement tools section for c ompilers etc...

acid_kewpie -- you forgot shell ;)

i've found that the amount of documentation and support for linux online is lightyears ahead of windows. honestly. throw "programming c", or whatever you're interested in learning into www.google.com/linux and i think you'll be pleasantly surprised. one of the first that came up for me just now was http://docs.linux.cz/programming/c/c_marshall/CE.html which seems to be a great crash-course.


EDIT: a bit more than a crash-course actually

Re: Proud Person I am.
 

If it exists, changes are there is a linux port somehwere as far as programming languages go.
If there is not a GCC front end for the language, then there is usually a port of a specific compiler out there.

2. Try asking questions on the programming forum here.

3. Should have at least GCC which covers C. It is likely you also have a frontend/compiler for C++, C@, and java there too. Redhat should have a package manager you can check to see what packages got installed to see though.