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Date:      Sun, 7 Oct 2007 00:07:59 +0000
From:      "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        "Christopher Nehren" <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <bef9a7920710061707g53726e8aqe76a2d47444864a5@mail.gmail.com>
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> PHP isn't really a programming language. It's more a fancy templating
> system that happens to be able to use extensions that can provide C
> style linkage. That said, I laude you for your desire to learn a real
> programming language, and agree with the recommendation that you start
> with something a bit higher level. Perl, for example, ships with
> absolutely top-notch documentation, and generally speaking, its
> third-party extensions have similar documentation quality.

Ruby is *VERY* easy to learn and there are many online and offline
books for teaching it (or depending on your personal ideals on
bittorrent)... it has one advantage over perl it much less
syntactically ugly



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