Topic: PERL? (Read 1443 times)

The_FOO · « **on:** June 20, 2004, 04:59:46 PM »

Anyone love it? Loathe it?

(Yes, I'm just posting this to force myself over the threshhold from 299 loot.

gorgeous_si · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2004, 05:15:07 PM »

Quote from: The_FOO

(Yes, I'm just posting this to force myself over the threshhold from 299 loot.

loot whore!

I've never actually used PERL ... so I'm going to say I hate it, on the basis that if I was interested, I would have tried it by now. I'm still open for conversion though, What kind of language is it? What's it good for? How many lines does it take to write a 'Hello World'?

The_FOO · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2004, 05:30:00 PM »

#! /usr/bin/perl

print ("Hello World!\n");

All done.

Perl is good for parsing log files or any sort of text input mainly. It's usefulness as a CGI language has mostly been replaced by PHP in recent times though.

P.S. I got my .sig though.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2004, 08:31:46 AM »

I'm used to Visual FoxPro, which is about the most forgiving programming language there is... so to me, languages like Perl are really nitpicky.

But it seems like a pretty handy language to know, if you are into web programming. Even if you do everything in PHP, I think you'd do well to know Perl first as a foundation.

The_FOO · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2004, 10:54:25 AM »

Yeah it does help with learning PHP which I'm just getting in to now.

The other benefit of Perl is that's almost sure to be installed on whatever flavour of *nix you happen to be using. Something that's not as sure with PHP or Python.

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The_FOO

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