Blazer wrote:
>
> I have limited experience of programming in C & C++ - I cant claim to
> know either of these well, but i do try to keep building on what i
> know, when i can. I just kept reading that Perl was a very easy
> language to learn. Is this true or is it propaganda???
>
> All I know is
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 15:05 -0800, Blazer wrote:
> I just kept reading that Perl was a very easy
> language to learn. Is this true or is it propaganda???
Learning Perl wasn't any more or less difficult than any other language
I've learned. Are you a new programmer? It might be more difficult fo
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 acade
I came to Perl with no real programming experience (I'd looked at C and
Java a bit, but never used them and messed around with simple BASIC at
school).
I was given the task of modifying a load of Perl code, so I went out and
bought the "Learning Perl" book (By Randal L. Schwartz & Tom
Christians
2009/2/8 Blazer :
> I have limited experience of programming in C & C++ -
Good. Perl has a C-like syntax, and supports a lot of C's idioms. It
is, in my experience easier to learn as a second language, after you
learned (at least some) other language.
> I just kept reading that Perl was a very ea
chime in and say how
you would have done differently.
Thanks and regards,
Damien.
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From: "itshardtogetone"
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:34 AM
To:
Subject: Re: How hard is it to learn this langauge?
From: "Blazer"
From: "Blazer"
To:
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 7:05 AM
Subject: How hard is it to learn this langauge?
I just kept reading that Perl was a very easy
language to learn. Is this true or is it propaganda???
Perl is quite easy to learn. Example if you wish to print out "Hello World"
,
you
Andrewmchorney wrote:
>
> Hello All:
Hello,
> I have taken a little classroom work in perl. I believe it is very possible
> to write a perl script to read a text file, strip the carriage return and
> linefeed and write it to another file.
>
> How would the script look?
If you are running thi
>I have taken a little classroom work in perl. I believe it is very possible
>to write a perl script to read a text file, strip the carriage return and
>linefeed and write it to another file.
>
>How would the script look?
Here's one way...
my $infile = 'path/file.ext';
open IN, "< $infile" or d
