I'll chime in here
Since you asked about CGI I'll discuss that and not mod perl, which,
had you asked for info on, I'm sure Chris Devers would have set you
away from here.
The Learning Perl book is a fine book but I wouldn't recommend it for a
beginner specifically wanting to learn CGI (I
On Sep 15, 2004, at 9:14 PM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
I would echo Chris' remarks about mod_perl, and the book not being
worth its oats if it shys away from using CGI.pm. Personally I would
skip *all* of the CGI books, and get a good book on Perl itself. Learn
the language not how to use it
Recently I jumped in to the list and gave a correct answer, but
unfortunately not really appropriate answer to the question asked. I
took the 'Beginners' adjective for this list too seriously.
Hence, to keep myself out of trouble, I think it is time to get another
book on CGI for perl to
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, hcohen2 wrote:
[...] CGI Programming 101: Programming Perl for the WWW and is a 2004
publication. The first 6 chapters are on line, so I can get some idea
of the book's value by going through those chapters.
...and the URL for that is... ?
Here?
Chris Devers wrote:
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, hcohen2 wrote:
[...] CGI Programming 101: Programming Perl for the WWW and is a 2004
publication. The first 6 chapters are on line, so I can get some idea
of the book's value by going through those chapters.
...and the URL for that is... ?
Here?
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, hcohen2 wrote:
Chris Devers wrote:
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, hcohen2 wrote:
However, there is a reader's review of the first edition that seems to
ring true and, moreover, is not complimentary.
...and the URL for that is... ?
Here?
hcohen2 wrote:
Recently I jumped in to the list and gave a correct answer, but
unfortunately not really appropriate answer to the question asked. I
took the 'Beginners' adjective for this list too seriously.
Hence, to keep myself out of trouble, I think it is time to get
another book on CGI
