Comfortably numb? ;-) This might help (a little more introductory...):
Copyright: 2001 Format: Paper Bound w/CD-ROM, 1057 pp. ISBN: 0-13-028418-1 In Perl How to Program, the Deitels and their colleagues, Tem R. Nieto and David C. McPhie, discuss topics you need to build complete, Web-based applications including: CGI/HTML forms/XML/CGI.pm Control Structures/Arrays/Hashes Regular Expressions/Strings Objects/Encapsulation OOP/Inheritance/References Database/DBI/SQL/Signals/Contexts Security/Accessibility Typeglobs/File Globbing Networking/Sockts/Internet Protocols Cookies/Session Tracking Filehandles/Data Structures Process Control/Forking/Piping Subroutines/Modules/Packages/Overloading Web Automation/OLE Automation Server-Side Includes/Ties/Closures Graphics/GUI/Perl/TK Ben Huyghebaert wrote: >I just spent about 5-6 hours going through some of the unix mans for perl. I'm >trying to get a better grasp on perl/cgi because right now a lot of it still confuses >me even after reading a whole book about it. I think I'm mostly confused because >there are so many ways to do things and then one wrong step that is hardly noticable >can throw everything outta wack! > >So I was trying to get more of a grasp on perl....boy was that a mistake... I now >believe that those perl unix manuals are written for two purposes. one: to put you to >sleep even after having a full night sleep and two: to scare you away from programing >forever! LOL > >I stopped looking at it about 45 minutes ago but i'm still dazed and my mind is numb! >Those manuals are horrible they bounce from one topic to another with no direction >and they expect you to know c and unix and a million other things when they are >inroducing "simple" topics. > >I'm just glad that I am on this mailing list I think i'll just keep browsing the mail >and eventually get a good understanding of how to program well. From humans, I don't >know what robots wrote those manuls. LOL > > >William move your heead! Look at the size of that boys >heeead! It's like an orange on a toothpeck! HEEEEAD >MOVE! > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
