On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:59:36PM -0500, RunningBarrels wrote: > Also which books would you recommend to someone with limited programming > experience and no perl?
Learning Perl is a good place to start. I still use my copy if I forget something. It's a good read, like most of the O'Reilly books. > If you have any other advise or tidbits, like what you wish you had done > different when you were learning perl, or if I should learn another language > before perl, etc, etc, please let me know. My ultimate goal is to be able to > build a classified page for my website to my liking, however that is quite a > task and I realize it will be a while before I am able to do that. I want to > learn the basics well, and go on from there. Perl is what's called a "loosely-typed language": it doesn't have defined integer, floating point or character variables, unlike Java or C. This can make it somewhat confusing if you're used to languages like Java OR are learning the two simultaneously. All the best. -- Frank Booth - Consultant Parasol Solutions Limited. (www.parasolsolutions.com) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
