From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 17: 4: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBEB37B9E9 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6J01qB12254; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:01:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: steinyv Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scripting In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000718193544.009c63f0@> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Many people use PERL and Python for web scripting. Python is more like C and Java than Perl, which makes it a little easier to learn. PERL is quite pwerful, but can be a pain in the rump to learn. PHP3 or PHP4 might be the best server-side scripting language if you want to do simple (or even complex) server-side processing. // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, steinyv wrote: > At 07:47 PM 7/18/00 , you wrote: > > >It's PERL, not pearl :) > Goes to show how new I am. > > > > >As usual, O`Reilly has several books on PERL that might interest you. You > >may also want to visit http://www.perl.org and scan through the > >documentation. > > > >Another alternative to PERL is something called Python. More information > >about Python can be found at http://www.python.org > Im on my way to check it out, is it worth it for programming on the web?? > > > >// Linh Pham > >// > >// Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD > >// FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org > >// OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org > > > >/* "Oregon, n.: > > Eighty billion gallons of water > > with no place to go on > > Saturday night." > >*/ > > > > > >On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, steinyv wrote: > > > > > Hey newbie here, where can I go to learn about writing scripts, and what > > > sources should I look at to look at for learning pearl. > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > _________________________________________ > Steiny's Studio > Pachyderm Productions > http://steiny.hypermart.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message