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vcherubini
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The most common language for CGI is Perl. I am sure that in your computer career, you must have heard of it at least once. It is an open source language developed by Larry Wall in 1987. Since then, it has grown to over a million users world wide. Perl is written in C as well.
If you want to get into Perl, then it is almost a requirement these days to purchase Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Randal Schwartz. The latest is the 3rd edition which is over 1100 pages. It tells you ever noock and cranny that many other Perl books do not. If someone calls themself a Perl guru and they don't own at least one copy of this book, then they are not what they say they are. The website for perl is
Another possible language is PHP. PHP was invented in 1995 by Lamus Lerdorf (I think it is spelled) and is rapidly growing. It is also an open source language developed in C. PHP was originally developed in Perl by Lerdorf in order to track the number of hits he got on his site so that he could tell who was looking at his resume. At the time, it stood for Personal HomePages. Today it stands for Hypertext Preprosser. Since PHP is relatively new, there are not that many books on it. O'Reilly (the publishers of Programming Perl and just about every other Perl book) is due to have a PHP book soon. You might want to check their website,
As for the website for PHP, you can visit
I think thats about it.
Hope this helps,
-Vic
P.S. I wish that someone would have told me all this when I started.
vic cherubini
vikter@epicsoftware.com
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Knows: Perl, HTML, JavScript, C/C++, PHP, Flash, Director
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If you want to get into Perl, then it is almost a requirement these days to purchase Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Randal Schwartz. The latest is the 3rd edition which is over 1100 pages. It tells you ever noock and cranny that many other Perl books do not. If someone calls themself a Perl guru and they don't own at least one copy of this book, then they are not what they say they are. The website for perl is
Another possible language is PHP. PHP was invented in 1995 by Lamus Lerdorf (I think it is spelled) and is rapidly growing. It is also an open source language developed in C. PHP was originally developed in Perl by Lerdorf in order to track the number of hits he got on his site so that he could tell who was looking at his resume. At the time, it stood for Personal HomePages. Today it stands for Hypertext Preprosser. Since PHP is relatively new, there are not that many books on it. O'Reilly (the publishers of Programming Perl and just about every other Perl book) is due to have a PHP book soon. You might want to check their website,
As for the website for PHP, you can visit
I think thats about it.
Hope this helps,
-Vic
P.S. I wish that someone would have told me all this when I started.
vic cherubini
vikter@epicsoftware.com
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Knows: Perl, HTML, JavScript, C/C++, PHP, Flash, Director
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