October 2001
Beginner
528 pages
15h 20m
English
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Programming
One area where you certainly will never run out of things to learn is that of programming. The phenomenon of accidental programmers who use Perl as their 0th programming language is a relatively new one, but real programming is a complex and demanding discipline with a long history. To the extent you find yourself focusing more on programming than on other aspects of developing web sites, you will necessarily find yourself travelling farther and farther down the path of the programmer.
A Programmer’s Editor
One of
the
first things
you probably will find yourself doing in that case is learning to use
a real programmer’s editor. In the Unix world that
traditionally has meant either vi or
Emacs (mentioned briefly in a sidebar in Chapter 1). I can’t advise you much in either
case, since I’ve kept one foot firmly enough planted in the
Windows world that my primary text editor is still a shareware
Windows program called UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com/). But having seen
what someone well-versed in vi can do in terms of
lightning-fast editing, I have no illusions about who would win a
speed contest, and one of these days I really am going to learn
vi, I swear. In the meantime, I normally get by
when editing under Unix with
jpico
, the pico-flavored
version of the joe
editor.
Revision-Control Systems
Besides a good text editor, another essential
tool of the programmer is a revision-control
system. The standard revision-control system used in the
Unix world is called RCS. ...
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