Re: Recommended Programming Language

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From: MD Websunlimited (none_at_none.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:23:52 -0600

Hi Ray,

VB 4.0 is 16 bit based and not a good choice to learn. Perl can run on both Unix systems and Windows but you'll find very little
sample code in Perl for Windows systems.

If you need to learn a language VB.Net may be the way to go as it is the current technology but it is not trivial. 

-- 
Mike -- FrontPage MVP '09 - '02
http://www.websunlimited.com
"Ray Woodcock" <ray-woodcock@usa.net> wrote in message news:fec742b6.0402290633.2f8ef0ef@posting.google.com...
> I would like to have the ability to use programming with FrontPage,
> primarily to aid in webpage authorship (i.e., to rearrange multiple
> files, and to automate content updates to many files at once).  I do
> not have a lot of spare time to learn programming.  My question is,
> what programming approach makes the most sense?
>
> I learned BASIC long ago.  I have recently purchased a copy of Visual
> Basic 4.0, thinking I could use it at least to learn with.  I am not
> certain it will run on my WinXP system, but probably it runs OK on my
> older Win98 system.
>
> As an alternative, I had considered just learning VBA, but I am not
> sure how to go about that, or whether it is all that much simpler than
> learning Visual Basic as a whole.
>
> A friend is learning Perl.  He says this is a great language in his
> field.  I had found Perl interesting when I took a preliminary look at
> it.
>
> Suggestions?

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