•Re: Learning OOP

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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Re: •Re: Learning OOP by Anonymous Monk on Jun 23, 2003 at 03:23 UTC
Your book is also available on safari as of a couple days ago. Although everyone should also buy the treeware for reference ;-)	[reply]
Re^2: Learning OOP by Anonymous Monk on Jun 23, 2003 at 13:58 UTC
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. Edit by tye, title, P	[reply]