[Purdue-pm] List activity

[Turner, Howard Robert]

Mark,

Ah great to hear! Can't find many local folks who use Perl these days and online info isn't always the greatest either.

I've only ever used Perl 5 and mainly one-liners on *nix systems. Recently decided to start putting more effort into programming in general and wanted to use Perl as a nice mix between Bash and C. Seemed to be what a lot of folks were comparing Perl to (again online inform so forgive me if that's a bad analogy).

Any suggestions on practice problems or challenges worth working on? I like the "solve problems relevant to you" mentality but sometimes have trouble coming up with my own challenges.

Rob
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From: Mark Senn <mark at ecn.purdue.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2020 9:55:49 AM
To: Turner, Howard Robert <turne349 at purdue.edu>
Cc: purdue-pm at pm.org <purdue-pm at pm.org>
Subject: Re: [Purdue-pm] List activity

Rob Turner <turne349 at purdue.edu> wrote on 12:52+00:
|  Greetings everyone,
|
|  Recently found out Purdue had a Perl mailing list. I haven't seen any
|  activity thus far so thought I'd send out a message to see if the list
|  is even active anymore?
|
|  Rob

Hi Rob,

Yep, we're active---just not a lot of traffic.  I use Perl 5 and Raku
(previously known as Perl 6) every day at my job at the Engineering
Computer Network.  Use Raku more than any other language for general
programming---use Mathematica for technical programming when the math,
graphics, or interfacing with curated data is easier in Mathematica than
Raku.

-mark
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