On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 20:20 -0500, Greg Donald wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:12:12 -0400, Michael Lauzon <mlauzon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Unfortunately the PHP.net are not really for beginners, you have to > > have some programming knowledge to get started using their > > tutorials...this is just my opinion. > > Well you're certainly entitled to your opinion.. > > I program in multiple languages as do many people on this list. And I > for one have to say that it doesn't get any more simple than PHP and > the ease of learning you get from it's excellent online manual. No > other programming manual even comes close. You get well documented > usage examples plus hundreds if not thousands of user comments that > often contain even more coding examples. Being able to teach yourself > kinda goes along with being a programmer.. and PHP.net totally > accelerates that function. > > Go out and try to learn Perl, Python, Java, or C (with no prior > programming knowledge) and get back to me. It's certainly possible, > but I wouldn't want to learn Perl again from scratch. > I have to agree with this, Learning PHP 5 and the online manual are making this very easy for me, I can almost say it's as easy as HTML. But this maybe because I know perl. Dan. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
