What is the best for.....

just wondering but what is the best language to learn for manipulating remote and local computer basic functions like FTP and Telnet and that sorta stuff?? I am asking here rather than google(K_I_N_G) because last time i looked over google from a programming language i came across a pathetic attempt of a BASIC language called Blitz, and ended up learning alot of that which now makes it confusing to learn other languages.

Do you mean like, UNIX terminal commands? ._.

Unix and Windows

I' am thinking Perl would do what your asking although I' am not much of a programmer.

And pearl allows me to run basic commands like terminal and dos with certain input variables

i.e.(also this is the pathetic BASIC i was talking about)

(this is what i want)run command="nbtstat -a " + ip% + ""
waitkey
end```

that wont actually work in basic but it's sorta self explanitory

i'd vote for PHP, i prefer it over many other languages, as its portable and theres plenty web servers to host it, and IP from those scripts come from the server. but thats a scripting langauge.

C++ is a good exe language if thats what your after. thats reasonably simple to use and will effortlessly connect to FTP and work with sockets.

can it run an inquiry through ftp to show the tree of the remote computers files?? just curious:D

DeafCode wrote: can it run an inquiry through ftp to show the tree of the remote computers files?? just curious:D

you mean like ls or dir ? yep you can do that

to the original post: I'd probably use perl, if you are gonna use telnet, sockets, and issuing commands there is plenty of briliant modules. But again with php you have mainly the advanteges Cheese described above

but can pearl run all remote commands like FTP or just telnet??

DeafCode wrote: but can pearl run all remote commands like FTP or just telnet??

firstly it's perl! secondly yes it can, and there are more ways to do so ( of course since it's perl :D) but for telnet and ftp there are special modules to manipulate with those

ok PERL it is

thanks for the help