I already have Java in a nutshell, and Sams Teach yourself C++ in 24 hours, (which seems to be a very "readable" book, although it doesn't seem to fill all the blanks in at the start..
The Java in a nutshell is a more down and dirty Java book, I have only dabbled in Java so I am concentraiting on C++ as I imagine that completing my java knowledge will be easier with C++ down pat.. (not that anyone ever stops learning a programming language..) I am in the middle of downloading the Borland C++ compiler 5.5 which is a 8.5 MB download, and they made me answer all their questions and agree to spam from them.... I want to eventually work my way into Kylix as well, so learing borland tools and Delphi are on the list somewhere too... What do people like kernel hackers use for their work?? Thats just a curiosity question, I am about 5 years or so from getting to that level, sure hope linux will still need people by then :-) I still have perl, which is my first love.. if I knew a way to make perl binaries I would probably stick with that.. One question I always had is this: Perl is an inturpreted language, and its compiled by the inturpreter at run time... Why can perl not be precompiled to give it a speed improvement over running as scritps... that would give it the best of both worlds, run it interpreted while in developement, then when you got it right, compile it... i always wondered why that is not done..... would not the speed improvment in this bring it closer in performance to C++ ??? I know it would probably never be able to be as fast, but surely alot faster then it is now.. for example, a perl cgi script that was precompiled would be heaps faster then the scripts I am using now, (which are not slow by cgi standards, but still not lightning fast... I know of tools that make perl scripts batch files, but that is not the same thing... anyother benefit of this is our shoppin cart, it uses a hashkey that it generates to protect stuff in transit from being altered.. and having the checksum libs freely available makes this tool useless.... (if people know how we do it, its not too hard to use that knowledge to create a new checksum with your changes included...) anyone know anything of this (compiling perl??) Also I have heard bits and pieces about tools to convert perl to other languages, does anyone know of these? what success did you have, what languages?? etc etc... tell me tell me......... :-) rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy McArthur Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2001 1:11 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [expert] There are some good free resources for learning java on the web: Thinking In Java, in Html, Word and PDF: http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/ The Java Tutorial http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ If you're coming from C/C++ I'd recommend getting "Java In A Nutshell" by David Flanagan, otherwise Just Java 2 by Peter Van der Linden. -- Guy McArthur * email{[EMAIL PROTECTED]} http{guymcarthur.com}
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