From: Mark Hedges <hedges@infonex.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:20:50 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: programing
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PERL is horrendously less efficient, but easy to code for grunt work like
data processing and administrative scripts. PERL is THE BOMB for CGI web
programming, and combined with a nice free database with like mySQL, you
can produce some really amazing applications. I'd guess quite a few on the
list use PERL... I do, almost exclusively, but I'm making services and
doing sysadmin and not producing platform-specific applications. Then, C is
the most likely language used. Probably lots of people have their own
favorite languages. The O'Reilly and Associates 'Nutshell' books are widely
accepted as good reference manuals and tutorials in many lanugages. Certain
languages work better for certain applications. Check a technical bookstore.

Mark Hedges
Infonex/Anonymizer


>At 12:03 PM 5/22/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>
>>hello i am new to this list
>>i would like to know what programing language everyone prefers
>>and any books they recommend on that subject
>
>Josh, my guess is that about 99% of programmers on this list use C
>whether they like it or not. What they prefer might be quite
>different. ;)