On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:43:50PM +0000, Shevek wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > ha! I have java in a nutshell and you certainly couldn't pick up java from > > it, if you want to learn java buy 'learning java', if you want to learn > > perl buy 'learning perl'. > I learned Java from nutshell and I have no computing qualifications > whatsoever...
Me likewise. However, I learnt Java from the first edition of the book. When Java was updated and I bought the new edition, I found that the tutorial section had been almost entirely removed to make room for the much expanded class library reference. I believe that Learning Java was created from that removed tutorial. > I don't remember how I learned Perl. I picked up perl - grudgingly - when awk and sed ran out of steam. So I already had a grounding in those bits of perl, and also in C. That was shortly after I'd posted to comp.lang.perl.misc saying that perl was pointless cos I had awk and sed. Mr. Christiansen took great exception to that post, and it was my first flame-war. I'm quite proud of it. I would point out that there *are* more painful things than doing C and perl in DOS. Such as awk and sed :-) -- David Cantrell | Degenerate | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david World War 2: the best sequel ever
