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]
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Yeay! Keep reading! And when you’re finished with “Learning Perl”, slip on over to “Intermediate Perl”, the sequel in spirit and form.
Good going, Kaks.
randal – thanks a ton! encouragement from the guru Himself! i am truly honored.
ag – i know what you’re thinking … high hopes!