This months issue of Linux Magazine talks about Perl and scripting
languages in general. I'm with John, but see some of Jeanie's side too. I
work as a network / database administrator, with more of my work on the
database side. I really enjoy data manipulation using awk and sed and keep
promising myself that I will learn Perl. I also will spend hours writing a
script that executes in two minutes that finds faults within our databases.
But the alternate choice of sitting down and inputting request into SQL
request by request would take days compared to what a script can do in
minutes that was written in a few hours. Perl, Awk, Sed, Vi and others will
be around for awhile yet to go and will continue to be valuable tools to
administrators just like Java and C++ are valuable tools to the developers.
Dan B
----- Original Message -----
From: "Schwenk, Jeanie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:27 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Perl
> John,
>
> I have to disagree. Perl may be popular but it's not the easiest
scripting
> language to learn. I have yet to read a perl script that didn't make me
> shudder. Even awk is easier to read and I like awk!
>
> If someone wants to become a programmer, C/C++ or Java is the best place
to
> start not a scripting language. There are alot of hacks that can be done
> much more easily in scripting languages, my suggestion is learn how to do
it
> right (sans hacks) because hacks will come back to haunt you.
>
> Jeanie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Britton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Perl
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Perl is a scripting language that comes standard with almost every major
> Linux
> distribution, including Mandrake. It's probably the most popular
programming
> language on the Internet. Perl can be used for many things from system
> administration
> to processing HTML forms. If you want more information and tutorials on
> how to use Perl, visit O'Reilly's Perl.com and check out the Perl books at
> Amazon.
>
> Perl is also among the easiest programming languages to learn. If you have
> ever wanted to become a programmer, Perl is a great place to start.
>
> - Steve
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "NEWBIE 1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:10 PM
> Subject: [newbie] Perl
>
>
> > I often see reference in many situations to Pearl, but what eaxtly is
it.
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John Richard Smith
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >
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