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Martinson Julia (martinsj@ERE.UMontreal.CA) wrote:
: In article <4qcbr4$713@milo.vcn.bc.ca> rslade@vcn.bc.ca (Robert Michael Slade) writes:
: >BKCGIPW3.RVW   960523
: > 
: >"CGI Programming on the World Wide Web", Shishir Gundavaram, 1996, 1-56592-168-
: >O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
: >[......] 
: >The author has put together very comprehensive coverage of CGI (Common Gateway
: >comments are unclear and unhelpful.  The "how" seems to be left behind in the
: >hurry to do something interesting.  The Perl wizard will likely find it easy
: >enough to follow the code, but the beginning CGI programmer, however
: >experienced in other areas, is going to find the book very difficult.
: >

: Just a comment: I find this book quite informative and helpful though I'm
: not a Perl wizard and not a professional programmer (not yet :-). Maybe it
: should be stressed that the books mainly deals with "how to _write" cgi
: (Perl) scripts, not just "how to _use" them.  One can't learn to write
: programs without knowing how to follow the code. And this book isn't 
: supposed to be a guide to Perl, there are excellent Perl books ("Learning
: Perl" and "Programming Perl", O'Reilly as well). 
:  

: Regards,
: JM
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