On Wed, 16 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Oh sure Perl and html are different. For practical purposes Perl is
> universal while html is a faux language created expressly for
> the internet. Can you imagine ssh in html?
I wouldn't say it's a faux language any more than LaTeX is a faux
language. They are markup languages designed to take content and present
it somehow. Comparing a procedural language to a markup language is like
comparing a command-lie shell to a word processor -- they are completely
different in terms of utility.
> I've never seen a console screen blanker, but I am comfortable in a
> console window and prefer it to GUI; my knowledge of Linux is very
> limited; and I don't have a dual boot system. I do have a couple of
> books: Linux Programming, a beginners guide which includes Perl,
> Tcl and Gawk basics and the 4th ed Complete Resource for Linux,
> which may not be helpful.
By console, I don't mean an xterm window on your X desktop, I mean the raw
console you log into if you are not using the GUI login (kdm, xdm,
whatever).
-- Brett
