Re: How to move forward -- MIDRANGE-L

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Hans Boldt wrote:

I'll start with the latter question - what does an HTTP server give you? First, it allows you to run CGI apps. Second, sure, you can use a FILE: protocol to access the HTML files in the IFS, but you can only go so far with relative path names. Third, you'll need to know how to work with an HTTP server when you build an external web site anyways, so you might as well learn that right away.

Makes sense.

Regarding the rest of your note, there's no one roadmap that's right for everyone. There are a lot of things you can learn, lot's of paths up the mountain. For me, here's more or less the path I've followed over the past five years or so: Java, HTML, HTTP server and Linux, Perl and CGI, Python, XML (to name just a few).

My question was more of a "which one first?" thing.

Thanks.

PS, you really like that Python, don't you? <g>

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