Subj : test
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Mike Miller
Date : Sun May 16 2004 10:28 am

Hello Russell.

08 May 04 13:55, you wrote to me:

 RT> Hello Mike.

 RT> 07 May 04 10:21, you wrote to me:

 RT>>> So I am in the process of becoming a programmer, know of any
 RT>>> PHP,or PERl tutorials, something to get me going, without a
 RT>>> massive learning curve, tho I suspect that it is
 RT>>> asking/expecting a bit much to ask, but I have none the less.
 RT>>> :-)

 MM>>  Perl is very difficult, IMHO. It's not designed for the casual
 MM>> user..

 MM>> I first started out learning PHP by reading PHP code.. I then
 MM>> picked up a book on it, ("PHP" by Visual) and still reference it
 MM>> from time to time. I find the best resource ever created for PHP
 MM>> is still
 MM>> www.php.net

 RT> Thanks, well from what I understand, substantial parts of the wheel
 RT> are already available under perl, whereas if those parts are practical
 RT> using php, I'll have to totally re-invent the wheel using php alone.

 RT> In one perl "tutorial" aimed at persons with a bit more programming
 RT> experience than I have, the claim is you can learn perl in 10 minutes,
 RT>  regular expressions that are used in perl take a heck of a lot
 RT> longer.

 the Perl layout is simple, but lines like this:

 while ($propstring =~ s/^\s*\((\S+)(?: "([^"]+)")?\)//)

get a bit confusing from time-to-time :)


Mike

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