Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-08 Thread Olivier
Vlado Keselj writes: > I believe that > Perl still comes installed by default in the most popular distributions. Not in FreeBSD, and that's a shame! Olivier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org

Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-08 Thread Vlado Keselj
.  We barely > know Python, so it will be a difficult – but necessary – journey. > > Cheers, > > > Claude. > >   > >   > > From: Steve Park > Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 11:49 AM > To: Andy Bach > Cc: William T

Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-08 Thread Steve Park
ay, August 8, 2023 11:49 AM > *To:* Andy Bach > *Cc:* William Torrez Corea ; beginners@perl.org > *Subject:* Re: My progress in Perl > > > > *CAUTION:* This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not > click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender a

Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-08 Thread William Ward via beginners
> Perl and Python learn both. There is nothing bad with that. > > Br, > Armando > From: Mike > Sent: Monday, August 7, 2023 12:56:35 PM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Re: My progress in Perl > > > "Try to learn by doing something that you need.&qu

Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-07 Thread Levi Elias Nystad-Johansen via beginners
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

Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-07 Thread Olivier
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.

RE: My progress in Perl

2023-08-07 Thread Claude Brown via beginners
are trying to figure out our path to Python. We barely know Python, so it will be a difficult – but necessary – journey. Cheers, Claude. From: Steve Park Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 11:49 AM To: Andy Bach Cc: William Torrez Corea ; beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: My progress in Perl

Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-07 Thread Steve Park
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

Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-07 Thread Andy Bach
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

Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-07 Thread armando perez pena
g Subject: Re: My progress in Perl "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

Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-07 Thread Mike
"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

Re: My progress in Perl

2023-08-06 Thread Olivier
William, > I started testing some extensions of CPAN but I don't understand anything. I > only execute and then proceed with a book. The name of the book is > Beginning Perl of Curtis Ovid Poe. > > I started with a lot of passion but then lost interest, the monotony conquered > me. Actually I am

My progress in Perl

2023-08-06 Thread William Torrez Corea
I started testing some extensions of CPAN but I don't understand anything. I only execute and then proceed with a book. The name of the book is Beginning Perl of Curtis Ovid Poe. I started with a lot of passion but then lost interest, the monotony conquered me. Actually I am learning references