Hi, disclaimer: highly opinionated answer follows
On 11/14/2010 10:28 PM, jaya kumar wrote:
hi to all anyone can tell is there any active meetups will be held to discussion about perl ? becuase for the last few months am seeing there is not even single person posting the doubt about perl ?
I would think that's because nobody is learning perl anymore. These days only old perl programmmers exist. That's because in this age of quick cpus, fast net connections, and UIs for everything from network configuration to backup tools, there is no real reason to learn perl. Especially since the advent of easier and altogether more fun languages like python.
i heard that Perl is toughest language and it take long time to understand (Ex:some yrs) is it How far is it true ?
It is very true. In fact even after years of toil when you become a perl monk it takes a long time to understand perl code (Ex:some yrs) :D
Seriously though, my personal opinion is perl is a _very_ easy language to _learn_, although becoming proficient at it will take a long time (as an aside: you would also need to sacrifice the notions of clarity, beauty and ultimately sanity, to become /really/ good).
If you *really* want to learn perl, my recommendation is first learn to script in bash[1], because it is only when you see why perl was born will you be able to appreciate it. Once you've done that you can pick up the camel book[2] which is the best book IMHO to get started.
what about the current openings for perl programmers as a freshers ? available or not ?
Like Shakthi suggested, check at http://fossjobs.in (for a start). cheers, - steve [1] Read Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide ( http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ ) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_Perl -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
