[H-GEN] A challenge for me :)

[Anthony Towns]

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On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 04:41:28PM -0700, 3 Blokes wrote:
> > What I did on Friday when a fellow workmate came up with a suggestion
> > like that, was to drop my copy of Learning Perl, along with
> > Programming Perl onto his desk.
> I totally agree with what you have said David, and I love the though that
> mabye I can give something back to all these geniuses that are making the
> software that I use everyday for free, and I was wondering if you(or anyone
> for that matter) can point me in the right direction, i.e what language to
> get started with(the easiest if possible :)) 

Perl, Python and PHP are probably good languages to try. There're pretty
significant differences between each of them, but whether one's easier
or better tends to depend a lot on the individual.

> and possibly what resources you would recommend, 

For Perl, the O'Reilley books are a good bet. For Python, the online docs
are fairly respectable -- I have a printed copy of ``Python Essential
Reference'', which turned out to not be much different to the online docs,
except that it's printed, which was justification enough anyway. I've
no idea what'd be a good reference for PHP.

If you've got no other ideas, and can't come up with any decent way of
choosing amongst the above, I'd suggest starting with Python.

Cheers,
aj

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