Re: Creating letter combination generator

2011-07-11 Thread David Christensen
On 07/10/2011 03:19 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: Does the sixth edition still encourage bad practices like calling subs with&, not using three-arg open with lexical filehandles, and the like? I read Learning Perl 2 e. and it was worth every penny. So, I'm offering a blind recommendation based on

Re: Creating letter combination generator

2011-07-10 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Chris Nehren" ... Perl works the best and is the easiest to use on Unix or Unix-like machines. If you're on Windows, get virtual machine software and pick a Linux distribution (I use Debian). This pretty unilaterally discards the efforts Adam Kennedy and others have put into Strawberry

Re: Creating letter combination generator

2011-07-10 Thread Chris Nehren
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 00:27:29 -0700 , David Christensen wrote: > On 07/08/2011 06:26 PM, Robert wrote: > >I have currently wrote a simple script to attempt to create a list of > >every letter combination this is a rough outline of what I want my > >program to do . . . > > For climbing the Perl

Re: Creating letter combination generator

2011-07-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Robert wrote: I have currently wrote a simple script to attempt to create a list of every letter combination this is a rough outline of what I want my program to do . . . A B C ... AA AB AC perl -le'print for "A" .. "ZZ"' I used perl a bit for a high school project several years ago so I'm

Re: Creating letter combination generator

2011-07-09 Thread David Christensen
On 07/08/2011 06:26 PM, Robert wrote: I have currently wrote a simple script to attempt to create a list of every letter combination this is a rough outline of what I want my program to do . . . For climbing the Perl learning curve, I recommend the following three books (in order): 1. "Lear

Re: Creating letter combination generator

2011-07-08 Thread Jim Gibson
At 6:26 PM -0700 7/8/11, Robert wrote: I have currently wrote a simple script to attempt to create a list of every letter combination this is a rough outline of what I want my program to do . . . A B C ... AA AB AC I used perl a bit for a high school project several years ago so I'm not that go