From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 11:38:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1EB37B443 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13XSQa-000MCn-00; Fri, 08 Sep 2000 18:59:04 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA91807; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 18:59:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 18:59:04 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: j mckitrick Cc: Craig Critchley , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what language should i learn next ? Message-ID: <20000908185904.M8064@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000907150644.A4202@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000907165111.B4757@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <081901c018e9$5cc254a0$0201010a@craigc> <20000908152748.A22081@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000908152748.A22081@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message