Having also taken Bob's Programming on the Internet course, I would like to post my vote for the continued use of Perl. I think once you learn Perl, all other scripting languages are pretty easy to learn. Similar to how after learning C/C++, Java is a breeze.
<br><br>-Jake<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave Thacker</b> <<a href="mailto:dthacker9@cox.net">dthacker9@cox.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Saturday 24 February 2007 14:08, Robert Fulkerson wrote:<br>> Greetings All!<br>><br>> UNO would like to create a two-course sequence of web-related<br>> programming. We currently have my course, which is taught in Perl and
<br>> another course that covers similar content but doesn't require any previous<br>> programming experience that is taught in Python. Essentially, we're going<br>> use the current Python course as the intro course and then my course as the
<br>> advanced course. We're going to standardize on one language, however, and<br>> Perl, Ruby and Python (and heck, even PHP) are all candidates. The two<br>> languages at the top of the heap are Perl and Python, since work has
<br>> already been done in both languages, thus reducing the amount of work to<br>> create the two-course sequence. I, of course, want the language to be Perl<br>> and have my own set of reasons, but I thought I'd cast a wide net out to
<br>> everyone for ideas that I can bring to the table on Tuesday.<br>><br>> So, fire away. Why should we continue to teach Perl instead of Python<br>> at UNO? Other than the fact that it's the coolest language ever? :)
<br><br>Perl has done some very heavy lifting in the Web app world. Python is gaining<br>favor among the admin community:<br><br>One Laptop Per Child-OS and GUI written in python<br>Ubuntu Linux-All scripting done in python.
<br><br>Since the course is for the Web, I'd vote for perl.<br><br>DT<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>> -- b<br>_______________________________________________<br>Omaha-pm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Omaha-pm@pm.org">
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