On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 21:31 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 8/11/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 13:43 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > sebb wrote: > > > > i totally agree with paul, python is the way to go. it has very strong > > > > extensions for everything (check pygame!) and is yet very portable. > > > > > > Actually, Paul said (while recommending it) > > > that python was _not_ very portable. > > > > Well it's portable in that it's available on multiple platforms, but the > > architects of the language don't worry too much about breaking old > > programs with new versions of python, at least not when compared with > > perl. In other words, an old perl program is still likely to work on a > > new version of perl, which might not be the case for an old python > > program and a new version of python. > > > > Paul. > > While I had not considered that before, I think that I would stay away > from a language that forced me to rewrite my code when I update. I > guess that makes python a no-no, leaving me to consider bash/ C/ perl. > Otherwise, python looked to be the way to go. Of them all, the perl > tutorials that I found today seem to be the most newbie-friendly. I'll > try and put together a few small scripts with perl and C, to get a > feel for them as was suggested by Glenn and Thomas. > > Thanks, everybody! > > Dotan Cohen > http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/131/counting_crows.php > Counting Crows Song Lyrics I was looking for a programing language to start learning and my friend at work gave me a book called Learning Perl. It's Published by O'Reilly. Thought you might want to check it out. I also wanted to ask if you can post the links for the tutorials that you found. Thanks ever so much, Rey Cruz P.S. Wasn't sure if I should ask off or on the list, but figured on list was better so others can learn about perl too.
