Damien Learns Perl wrote:
I have experience in C and I find that Perl would have been a much
easier language to start with. You can write powerful code right away.
I started to learn Perl last month and I am blogging about it at:
http://damienlearnsperl.blogspot.com/
This is certainly not academic Perl but you can come chime in and say
how you would have done differently.
Thanks and regards,
You're welcome, and ...
On Usenet, and most mailing lists like this one, it is good manners to
intersperse your comments or put them all at the bottom of the previous
post, after you have suitably trimmed away all irrelevant and
superfluous lines (like for instance the post you replied to.)
I too have experience with C and several other languages and I find it
much easier to write a robust and maintainable program in Perl than the
equivalent in C which would also be two to ten times longer and more
complex. Learning the basics of Perl is fairly easy, truly
understanding Perl may take a while. ;-)
Also, a note about your blog. You wrote on January 4, 2009:
<QUOTE>
Side note for Linux users:
Perl is present in most standard Linux distributions. In order to check
the Perl version that you are using, open a terminal and type:
perl -v
If perl is not in your current path, typing
which perl
will show you which directory to add to your $PATH environment variable.
</QUOTE>
The 'which' command searches through the current PATH to find the
program you are looking for so if 'which' finds it the directory is
already in the PATH environment variable.
Oh, and my condolences on your use of Windows. :-(
John
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