scripting language newbie - compatibility

[gbp]

Java is the best bet for cross platform, but isn't a scripting langauge!

Server side web programming is very crossplatform in a way.  The client
is the web browser.

I've used Perl and Python.  Go ahead and try Python first.  I think its
a little better as far as the cross platform ability.  Perl was a child
of Unix.


Kurt Aistinger wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody!
> I recently decided to learn a scripting language like perl, tcl or python
> and can't decide which I should choose.
> Someone told me that perl is source-compatible, you can take the source from
> unix, copy it to windows and it runs, which is reallly cool I think.
> Nevertheless, I think that programs in python are easier to read and to
> understand and that they're shorter, which makes it more sympathic to me.
> are python-programs source-compatible, too?
> 
>                     regards,
>                                     Harald