Recommend a book

[Thomas Dowling]

>  You might want to check out JavaScript though before you go to deeply
into
> yucky old PERL.  It allows for manipulation of data as well as other
kinds
> of cool stuff on the client side (using Netscape 2.0 and above) versus
> being server driven.  We are teaching ourselves JavaScript using Danny
> Goodman's book.   There is a group of 13 or 14 students, staff and
> professors.  We see the demise of PERL imminent except for special uses.

The comparative yuckiness of available languages doesn't really affect the
decision of whether to run an app on the server or the client.  What I see
as imminent is the development of powerful building blocks for
non-programmers, written by professionals in standard, open languages like
perl and java proper--which is of course derived from C++, the Tres Grande
Yuck of languages.  Javascript is likely to hang around, but whenever I
think of people investing a lot of time in it, I hear a little voice
saying things like "Visual Basic" and "Installed Base".  WWW Indexing
services aren't the only people reinventing the wheel.

OBbook recommendation: I live by the Llama Book.  One of my coworkers
swears by Teach Yourself PERL in 21 Days.


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