Despite knowing a good bit of C++......i actually don't know that much about scripting languages. I feel like however I need to learn more about them. However there are a fair bit of different ones, but which one would be the best one to learn for a job? (I am a CS graduate in December btw) or just a general "better" to work with.
Powershell seems to come up quite alot in jobs search, however I've been told BASH is alot easier to use?
Any suggestions? Thanks
learning powershell would tie you to windows..bash is predominant in *nix environments..while there are ways to use bash in windows, i have not seen it put in much use that way. the best recourse, i would say, would be to learn perl/python...you wouldn't be as much tied to the environment, as you would be with bash/powershell
PowerShell is as interactive and composable as bash/ksh and as programmable as Perl/Python/Ruby. If you are going to be working on Windows, learn PowerShell. Once you learn the ropes it makes numerous automation tasks a breeze. It's deep integration with the Windows platform is a key enabler for many things. It ships with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 and is ready to go out of the box.