I do love perl, even if I mostly code with PHP, but I use perl for
stuff that run with a crontab (a script that run on every x date or
hours), I know that you can do that with PHP now too, but Perl is a
really great and funny language to learn, the best regular expression
that I ever use (I still use the perl regular expresion in PHP), just
for that you should learn they language. Once you know a language it's
easy to change or learn an other one, the best thing should be learn
what you need and get good on this one and if you need an other language
then the stuff that you have learned will help you up to learn you new
stuff.
Book: Learning Perl from O'reilly, O'reilly have the better good,
amazing book for Perl.
Tom Malone wrote:
>
> I'm pretty new to programming - besides JavaScript, PHP is really the first
> language I've used.
> I'm just wondering, and I'm sure you all would know - should I learn Perl?
> Is it considered a necessity for a web developer to know Perl, or is it not
> a worthwhile endeavor, considering how easy PHP is to learn and use? Someone
> I know told me not to bother, but I just wanted a second opinion.
> (BTW - if you think it is worthwhile to learn Perl, what is a good book to
> begin with?)
>
> Thank you!
> Tom Malone
>
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