Outside of earning a living as a programmer, one of my
interests is to be a handyman/carpenter, and hangout in the likes of
HomeDepot. Everyone in the handyman profession
always has a toolbox that almost defines who they are. I'm wondering what
each of you consider a must in your software toolbox. Please note the word
"must", which really means those without which your job will suffer, not
impossible. Archimedes used to say: "Give me a place to stand and with a
lever I will move the whole world." I'm looking for a list so that I
can say: "Give me a place to sit and with this list I will program the
whole world."
My list is as follows:
- An editor: emacs
- A version control system: CVS
- A shell: Bash, shell scripts
- Perl: For anything too much for a shell script. (Here I'm putting
perl as a tool, even though the actual job might be in, say, java.)
Since many of us also use perl for web applications, what is a good list
for a perl oriented web programmer:
- CGI.pm (for the simple and the quick)
- CGI::Applications (for the more complicated)
- ??? (is there an enterprise level web framework? whatever that means?)
- mod_perl
- Template Toolkit
- WWW::Mechanize (for testing)
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