•Re: Learning OOP

[merlyn]

If you're waiting for your copy of the alpaca to arrive, you can look at perlboot in the meanwhile. The alpaca version is longer and better, but perlboot is free. {grin}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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[Anonymous Monk]

Your book is also available on safari as of a couple days ago. Although everyone should also buy the treeware for reference ;-)

[Anonymous Monk]

I'd recommend either Python (for those who love scripting languages) or basic C++ (ignore the STL, exceptions, etc, at first...I don't like them anyway).

Java reminds me of Ent-speak, and Perl really...well...it's very different... things can be said better w/o making Perl objects 95% of the time.

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