On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:52:12 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >Taking the p**s again Shane! ;-)
Sorry ? - what do you mean, "again". >FWIW, Perl 6 seems to have smoothed out a lot of the rough edges. Never having bothered with Perl, I attended a Linux conference in Canberra in 2005. Went to a Perl developers spiel out of interest. After the cognoscenti had finished point-scoring, I asked if I should concentrate on learning the (then) under development Perl 6, or start with 5.8 Given 6 would need a little while longer to be released it was decided 5.8 would be a good starter. Good advice as it happened - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6 if interested. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN