Hi,
Learning Perl is a great book, but anyone looking for an alternative should
check out Minimal Perl by Tim Maher. I've found this book to be a little
clearer and with more practical examples.
I've used Perl on windows for years, as it is far more powerful and portable
than Batch and
Out off topic rant...
> Honestly, my advise is if you are beginning to learn programming using
> perl in 2023. Don't.
>
> Pick up python and go from there.
My problem with Python (beside my inability to think oriented object) is
the very bad choice to have idents to represent blocks hierarchy.
Steve,
I agree. Someone just starting out should go with Python. It pains me to say
it, but Perl isn’t a good skills investment.
My team and I program every day in Perl – we have 100’s of libraries and system
integrations. I love it and it is my first choice for backend work.Sadly,
we
Honestly, my advise is if you are beginning to learn programming using perl
in 2023. Don't.
Pick up python and go from there.
If you already know some perl and want to advance, yes go right ahead.
2023, is perl dead? no. It's a tool and it's still a swiss army of
programming language and lot
Yeah, I learned Perl back in the V4 days; I was sort of new to linux
admin though a programmer in school and after learning sed/awk/grep to
handle digesting logs and munging data files I heard of Perl. It was a bit
like finding crack cocaine, all sorts of tasks became easy and I wrote
scripts to
In my case Perl was my first programming language. What I did was.
1) Read "Learning Perl" book.
2) After 2nd chapter more or less start to apply it and continue reading.
What I learned was applicable for other languages like python because the
concept are similar.
But for sure you need a
"Try to learn by doing something that you need."
That is great advice. Write a program to open your directories
given a key word. I use that program dozens of times every day.
Mike
On 8/7/23 00:29, Olivier wrote:
William,
I started testing some extensions of CPAN but I don't understand
