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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:36:46 -0600
From: Matt Meola <mmeola@uswest.com>
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Subject: Re: what language should i learn next ?
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:01:17PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > my personal suggestion, if you pick only one, would be perl, if only because
> > its useful for a lot of different interesting things worth learning about...
> > in addition to "normal programs" its well suited for shell-script-type
> > programs, you can build gui's with tk, and if you're interested in web stuff
> > you can use mod_perl with apache.  it's not too hard to plug in a database
> > like mySQL, either.  there's also a vast library of code and add-on modules
> > (CPAN) for all kinds of stuff - email, image processing, etc, etc.
> 
> Since no one else put in a word about it....
> 
> Every word of this applies to Python as well (ok, CPAN doesn't have
> Python code, but there is a very large library available).

A minor, but important point:  Python's extensive library is
_built_in_ -- it makes it much nicer to use.  No searching CPAN,
then downloading and building; most of the really useful stuff is
right there.

Now, as far as modules like Oracle, and GTK/QT, etc...  Then it is
just like CPAN.



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Matt Meola
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