Re: Comprehensive Reference Books On Perl or CGI.

"v" == virtualadepts <virtualadepts@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

v> I'm learning Pearl now. It is the hottest damn language out there,
v> for some clearly good reasons. The language was released for free
v> in 1988 on Usenet to begin with, so you know it is good already.
v> And people have been developing source with it within the unix
v> community since then. The other good thing about the language, and
v> unix in general, is there are so many manuals written for it that
v> explain everything so clearly that you may as well have a teacher
v> in the room with you. Perl is the main language people use to code
v> CGI programs, although you could use C, but C doesn't have as much
v> power. CGI is a way to run executables as web sites, and that has
v> created the new dot.com revolution now that we have hardware and
v> bandwith that can process everything like google, youtube, and
v> myspace. People are writing simple php, html, css scripts. They
v> are coding backends in Perl and C++. Sometimes even coding their
v> own webservers. And if you get an iMac you are running unix to
v> begin with, and it is easy to see that unix programming CGI, & Perl
v> are the future of computers. They already are here. If you want a
v> career in computers 5 years from now you will have to forget all
v> about windows GUI programming and C#. Knowing how to configure
v> Apache to run php scripts on a windows box won't be good enough
v> either. You will have to learn UNIX!!!! UNIX!!! And all the
v> manuals are out there by a great publisher Oreilly:
v> http://www.oreilly.com/ This company published all of the really
v> good perl, and cgi books, as well as some great manuals for unix.
v> The phrase RTFM is my best friend now that I have an iMac. Because
v> the manuals are just so damn enjoyable to read! Google book search
v> kicks ass too, but I can't find many manuals better than the ones
v> on Oreilly for unix.

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