Advice

Alyne Mochan & Warren Baker (sb0822@ppp.bekkoame.or.jp)
Sat, 29 Jun 1996 08:59:29 +0900

I'm not a programming professional, but I'm trying to learn more about the
Internet. To this end I want to write a small robot?/spider? which would
seek out possible locations of information that I might like to have.
Forgive my ignorance in briefly intruding to ask what language might be
best, considering that I would like something that
a) I can learn without too much advice (I live in Japan so I can't
get a lot of advice), so there must be reasonaly comprehensive
manuals
and
b) will permit me some degree of flexibility in writing my little
'agent'.

I know a little of C++ . . . Should I use C++ with MFC, or Perl? Any
other likely candidates?

It might be best if any responses be made to my personal ID rather than to
the list, since I worry that this is too low-level for the list. . .

Thanks very much!

--Warren
sb0822@ppp.bekkoame.or.jp