a "perly" discovery

sometime back i made a late (better than never) discovery.

this time it’s a distant cousin of pearl jam: the perl programming langauge. this is another one that almost got away, but it finally made it to the top of my todo lists (close second: shave nose hair) and right away i got cracking with “Learning Perl” – another magnificent effort from O’Reilly. i truly believe this is one of the best scripting languages for the web.

just created a hello.pl file, typed in:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print “Welcome! Please enter your name: “;
chomp($name=<STDIN>);
print “Hello, $name!\n”

then said “$ perl hello.pl” and voila! – instant gratification.

i’ll master you yet, perl!

[tags]perl[/tags]