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Thanks everybody for the excellent feedback.  I'll be going book shopping
soon.  :)

On 8/31/06, Steve Brown <braino420 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> >From: Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> >I believe KDE and GNOME are both written in C++ and they are large
> >projects.
>
> >I think it is good that schools are now teaching stuff like scripting
> >languages vs Cobol.  I ask why the choice of Python?  Maybe because it
> >has a strong focus in OOP.  It seems that Perl would give you more bang
> >for the buck in terms of languages to program in.  They are both
> >excellent choices.  I believe Perl has better community support which
> >would lend itself to a good choice in almost any project.  I'll put it
> >this way, there has not been a time when I thought that Perl could not
> >do what I needed and I thought about using something else.  I've done
> >some unique things with Perl so far.
>
> The Python class I'm taking is a "special topics" class (1 hr long). I
> signed up for it because I've heard many good things about it (and I love
> Monty Python)
>
> The C++ class I'm taking is Data Structures and we're using C++ to play
> around with different data structures.
>
> I've heard MANY good things about Perl, and have been reading about it
> outside of school. I also share your hatred towards CH.
>
> To Charles Shapiro:
> Thanks for your input, I'll definately look into those projects for some
> inspiration. Thanks for the book recommendation too, I'll prob pick one up
> at amazon (they have them for around 12 bucks used!!!)
>
> -Steve
>
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