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In a message dated 5/20/99 5:20:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
genepool@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> After programming VB for over 6 years I found Perl to be a much more
> productive programming language per line of code. I haven't joined this
> little discussion till now because I'm on the fence whether it is a good
> language for learning programming. However, since you raise the specter
> of productivity vs. pedagogical usefulness, I will suggest the following
> texts:
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> Learning Perl
> Perl Cookbook
> Programming Perl
> Mastering Regular Expressions
> Web Client Programming With Perl
>
> .. all published by O'Reilly and available from Amazon at a decent
> discount. Does VB do regular expressions yet?
PERL has an amazing on-line support structure. There are even entire "how to
learn PERL" books for free on the Web!
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