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!

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3 Comments

  1. Posted 09 Mar 2006 at 22:38 | Permalink

    Yeay! Keep reading! And when you’re finished with “Learning Perl”, slip on over to “Intermediate Perl”, the sequel in spirit and form.

  2. AG
    Posted 10 Mar 2006 at 17:31 | Permalink

    Good going, Kaks. ;)

  3. Posted 10 Mar 2006 at 18:46 | Permalink

    randal - thanks a ton! encouragement from the guru Himself! i am truly honored.

    ag - i know what you’re thinking … high hopes!

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