Posted by K.J.Williams on 04/04/07 07:00

I was going by the advice that I got on alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++
group
that its best to have many reference books for knowing how to use a
langauge, I have at least 4 for books on C++ , 1 on C, 1 on C and C+
+...
and many of the authors hit and miss certain subjects.

I needed the CSS book becuase I dont know how to use CSS in HTML ,
I know HTML but not the integration CSS which is now a standard among
many businesses, along with that comes Javascripting - which I have
never
touched becuase of the frustration of non-standard HTML browsers such
as
MSIE, as for PHP , php in a nutshell was choosen as reference, and
the
other book published by wrox is to teach me.


And to go off on a tangent, as for a few programming langauges
I traded Commodore BASIC for C on my IBM - it took three years for me
to dewarp my mind from bad programming habits to develop good
programming habits
in C. HTML is a pseudo-programming langauge , ditto for Javascript.
The most
horrible langauges I have run into are COBOL, Pascal, Modula-2,
Fortran,
BASIC, and if not Visual BASIC in early versions. If and when Sunsoft
develops
a compiler that produce a independent machine code program from JAVA
code, I might
reconsider that langauge - that langauge is junk. Theres a whole
litany of religious
wars between JAVA and C++ programmers. But the most useful of all the
programming
langauges is assembly, the only langauge that has 3rd advantage over
all langauges.
Assembly langauge runs the fastest, has a 1 to 1 ratio of mnemonic to
machine code
translation ( yes that makes it a pain to program if you wanted to do
something big ),
but most of all you can revert any machine langauge back into assembly
langauge
and reverse engineer it to do something that it wasnt intended to do.
Now that means
you have to be a master of the machine your on. On newer machines that
have big
processors today, thats an undertaking task, but say long ago on a
Commodore 64 ,yes
it was - software piracy was rampant on that machine. And that
basically proves that
there can be no such thing as copyright protection scheme or anything
to prevent
software duplication. All software on CDs have to abide by a red book
standard?..
and that standard is available to anyone who builds hardware - or
software, or software
that copys that medium. And thats true for any standard among the
industry involved with
incoding of information mediums. The photocopier must have been the
biggest threat to
to the book industry, with the scanner following ( same technology ).

But to cut to the chase...

I want to use PHP to build a better nteractive web site with my web
clients.
Thats what I want

On Apr 3, 3:10 pm, a...@spamcop.net (axlq) wrote:
>
> Personally I think you're buying too many books. The only thing I
> ever needed for PHP was the online documentation atwww.php.net.
> The books are available for others to make money from you. Nothing
> wrong with that, but if you already have a few programming languages
> under your belt, you don't need yet another book for PHP, in my
> opinion.
>
> -A

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