wow! i need to get with you guys and start picking your brains! i like the functionality of perl and all the cool stuff you can do with it, but it looks like i'm just barely scratching the surface learning it! i'm a sysadmin and although, most seem to either script in bash or korn, i thought i'd get crazy and learn some perl.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Wiles</b> <<a href="mailto:frank@wiles.org">frank@wiles.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:26:03 -0500<br>Scott Kahler <<a href="mailto:scottk@uclick.com">scottk@uclick.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> This brought to mind a question that comes up every once in awhile.<br>> How did you go about learning perl?
<br><br> My Perl journey started in 1997. Back then there weren't a ton<br> of learning options other than Programming Perl and perldoc,<br> so that's what I used.<br><br> At that point I had some experience with Logo, Basic, Pascal,
<br> C/C++, and a strange little language called Lite. Lite was<br> bundled with a free ( but not strictly Open Source ) database<br> called mSQL ( not the lack of a 'y' ). I was using Lite/mSQL<br> to build small web applications for my employer, but was
<br> really just a sysadmin who wrote a bit of code. I was then<br> introduced to a great programmer who did everything in Perl.<br><br> After he showed me a few things about Perl I was hooked and<br> really haven't looked back. I then found CPAN and the rest is
<br> history...<br><br> Yes I do occasionally check out other languages to make sure I'm not<br> flying down this road blind/ignorant, but so far no one has showed me<br> a compelling reason to switch to something else as my primary
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