<html><head></head><body>We hold Perl Mongers on the second Wednesday of each month, so we will meet next on 11/13/13. It generally works out to be somewhere around the hump day of each month ;-)<br>
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The IRC bot script that's being discussed sounds like lots of fun! <br>
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-- Tommy Butler<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 19, 2013, "A.J. Maurin" <coyo@darkdna.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k10mail"><br />On 10/17/2013 8:53 PM, kevin wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On 10/17/2013 05:50 PM, A.J. Maurin wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">I know this is kindof a stupid question, but...<br /><br />Is Perl like a shell script?</blockquote><br />Umm, Perl is a little bit of everything. :) I'd say that it excels <br />handling string data, although it can do a lot more. :)<br /><br />I do use it for "complex shell tasks" as well as 1-liners. I also use <br />it for CGI stuff, general utilities, and even simple GUI programs. <br />I've even used it for a ~35K line back-end database app. I really like <br />it because it's so flexible. As usual, you should use the best tool <br />for the job you're working on, but I find Perl does very well for many <br />jobs.<br /><br
/>HTH,<br />Kevin</blockquote><br />Thank you! I can't wait to visit next Hump Day, which is four days away! <br />I'm counting the days!<br /><br />I'm already making a list of the digital and analog circuits I want to <br />play with! I've been boning up on the manuals to the Arduino <br />microcontroller, and the RaspPI system-on-a-chip-set, so I'm pretty excited!<br /><br />I've been watching videos of bedini wheels, zeusaphones and 555 flyback <br />transformers, which has me chomping at the bit.<br /><hr /><br />Dfw-pm mailing list<br />Dfw-pm@pm.org<br /><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/dfw-pm">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/dfw-pm</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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