Newbie programmer here...

[Aahz]

In article <uc73k44mopm050 at corp.supernews.com>, MH  <mhaag at pacific.net> wrote:
>
>I have recently been wrestling with PERL as a means to create interactive 
>websites, but I find PERL incredibly inconsistent and confusing, and the 
>debugging features I think are sorely lacking. I spend HUGE amounts of time 
>solving very basic problems.
>
>I am looking for ANYTHING but PERL to accomplish basic tasks such as 
>collecting, processing, and displaying data via CGI/HTML. Is PYTHON a good 
>candidate for this? What about PHP? Suggestions?

Well, at least if you don't like Python, you won't waste much of your
time.  Start with the tutorial at
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html
It should take you a day or three to work through it.
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