Honestly, my advise is if you are beginning to learn programming using perl in 2023. Don't.
Pick up python and go from there. If you already know some perl and want to advance, yes go right ahead. 2023, is perl dead? no. It's a tool and it's still a swiss army of programming language and lot can be done. I would say writing concise and compact programming for regex related processing, it still is right up there with anything out there today. But def if you are learning programming in 2023, you should start w/ python. To be truly useful, you have to learn several language but python(or to lot of extend, javascript) should be the first language you should learn(until AI can take over the world). Having said this, I still love my perl. On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 12:31 PM Andy Bach <afb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, I learned Perl back in the V4 days; I was sort of new to linux > admin though a programmer in school and after learning sed/awk/grep to > handle digesting logs and munging data files I heard of Perl. It was a bit > like finding crack cocaine, all sorts of tasks became easy and I wrote > scripts to handle everything. Having a need was the motivation, not > following the books, though I did have a copy of Programming Perl that had > about 40 scotch tape tabs marking places for reference. Other books, the > Perl Monks site and finally a near-by Perl Mongers group really helped me > find the Perl communtiy. > > On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 12:24 PM William Torrez Corea < > willitc9...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I started testing some extensions of CPAN but I don't understand >> anything. I only execute and then proceed with a book. The name of the book >> is Beginning Perl of Curtis Ovid Poe. >> >> I started with a lot of passion but then lost interest, the monotony >> conquered me. Actually I am learning references and Complex Data Structures >> in Perl. >> >> I have a lot of doubts in my mind: >> >> What is my purpose with this language? >> In my country don't exist use of this language >> I am boring and tired >> >> *I must be a success!* >> >> PD: Add your anecdote with this language. >> >> -- >> >> With kindest regards, William. >> >> ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ >> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system >> ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org >> ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ >> >> >> > > -- > > a > > Andy Bach, > afb...@gmail.com > 608 658-1890 cell > 608 261-5738 wk >
