On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Alex Gough wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Chris Devers wrote: > > > > > My book showed up last night! :) > > > > > > It seems to be *very* introductory on the Perl side -- actual [tongue in > > > cheek] bullet points from chapter two: > > > > > > * What is a computer program? > > > * What is a programming language? > > > * What is a computer? > > Where they in that order, or do biologists usually start reading > at the bottom of a page? Yes, it's in that order. The narrative goes something like "in order to solve these sorts of problems, you write a computer program, and in order to run a computer program you have to write it in a programming language." And then the three explicatory bullet points, with the third one being more or less just a joke.
But it'll all be in the review, whenever I finish reading it. -- Chris Devers "People with machines that think, will in times of crisis, make up stuff and attribute it to me" - "Nikla-nostra-debo"
