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Hi, I haven't read all the answers, but this
might help you: * I like programming in Perl, just because it works great at LINUX- Let's agree that it is such an important part of LINUX as AWK, GNU or C. * LINUX = WWW. * I need to learn more about LINUX but there is so much to learn that I thought that starting with Perl would be a right move. On the other hand, what your boss might have meant with Win32 programmers, I think that refers to VBA.NET programming. And specially, OLE programming. That is the fastest way of getting things done in Windows. They are not modern tools. They are only for Win32 systems. I don't use them, but I think that using them would be like a bad habbit in programming. Like programming in Basic. But if you need to do very internal things with scripts, it would be the best aproach. That is, devoting all your future to program in Win32. I think that nowadays VBA code would be useless in other systems. If you would have to invest in some learning for programming in Win32 I would invest in 'C'. Not C++ but C that is the main brick of the Windows system and would be able to easyly exchange data with all the OLEs and other objects. C is also the spinal chord in LINUX and in mostly all this computer world. I also know Assembly, but I wouldn't go that far to program in anything, because is very specific for every single different platform. But C is a good investment in not a short term. And is well recognized in the Win32 comunity, as well. --
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