P.H.P. and Python

Ken Burtch ken-8VyUGRzHQ8IsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Sun May 11 12:39:35 UTC 2008


Sorry for the delayed reply.

It's nice to know it's good enough to be stolen.

When it was published, I was just glad to have a copy of my notes
available at any larger bookstore.

Ken B.

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 06:15 -0400, Paul King wrote:
> Ken, perhaps it is a testament to the quality of your work, but when I googled 
> "Burtch Linux" (without quotes) torrents were at the top of the list, and the 
> only Amazon link was found at the bottom. Subsequent pages also showed a 
> seemingly endless stream of links to pirate bittorrents of your book. I hope 
> your royalties were adequate despite the seemingly rampant pirating. 
> 
> FWIW, the number of torrents have piqued my curiosity enough that I think I 
> will pick up a copy next time I go to Chapters.
> 
> Paul King
> 
> > 
> > I discuss this in the beginning of my book "Linux Shell Scripting with 
> > Bash".
> > 
> > Ken B.
> > 
> > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, jemcinto-cpI+UMyWUv+w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > 
> > > I used to think that P.H.P. and Python were programming languages.
> > > 
> > > Then someone told me that they were not programming languages, but
> > > scripting languages.
> > > 
> > > Now I have read that P.H.P. and Python are neither programming languages
> > > nor scripting languages, but are instead frameworks.
> > > 
> > > What are the differences between programming languages, scripting
> > > languages, and frameworks ?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > James ('Jim') E. McIntosh
> > > <jemcinto-cpI+UMyWUv+w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org>
> > > 416-292-8126
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