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Date:      Fri, 8 Sep 2000 18:59:04 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        Craig Critchley <cac@fuzzer.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what language should i learn next ?
Message-ID:  <20000908185904.M8064@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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j mckitrick wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:33:32AM -0700, Craig Critchley wrote:
> | 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
> 
> You can (easily) use perl with a GUI?

Yes.  There's a Tk interface for Perl, at least.  In the ports somewhere.

> | (CPAN) for all kinds of stuff - email, image processing, etc, etc.
> 
> And image processing?

Yes.  ImageMagick (also in the ports) allows you to manipulate images,
and the GD library lets you create simple images (often used for graphs
and stuff).

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Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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