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> In-Reply-To: <slrnfgg8cv.2n34.apeiron%2Busenet@prophecy.velum> References: <972994690710061253q483e26ber68f4716d3202d1fa@mail.gmail.com> <20071006201356.GB55336@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <972994690710061329t10b4eb49j8c95a539eec2bbe9@mail.gmail.com> <slrnfgg8cv.2n34.apeiron%2Busenet@prophecy.velum>
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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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