Re: How to move forward

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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