Hmmm... that's a loaded question if I've ever heard one. Well, Perl was my starting point and if I had to do it all over again (knowing what I know now), I think I would still choose Perl. Java would be a close second. Recommended Perl books (in this order): Learning Perl - O'Reilly Perl CookBook - O'Reilly Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl (perltoot, found at http://www.perl.com ) Object Oriented Perl - Manning Advanced Perl - O'Reilly Just my $cents++ Regards, Mike Cantrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Harrop" To: Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 12:39 PM Subject: to code or not to code? > I was wondering if I could get some feedback on some scripting / programming > languages to jump into for a newbie coder. Perl seems like a good choice > because everybody has it and there's tons of support. You can either use it > for web page development or linux admin stuff. I don't know if you can > compile it to a single exacutable under DOS/WIN stuff though. That would be > cool. I've listened to a few people on the list talk about python and it > sounds good but it doesn't seem to have the same amount of support as Perl > does. C++ would be cool but I don't want to have to compile everything > before I can run it. It might be overkill for a newbie. :-) Links on > where to go to learn the code would be nice too... > > Don > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss