Perl anyone?

[evildrummer]

Does anyone know of any good Perl tutorials? I want to get a taste of it and see if its any goood or not. Maybe even build a crawler :nerd:

[ramie]

Perl is sweet, and very fast; the problem Ive always had is the code becomes unreadable very quickly if your not careful, but you should still learn the basics if your interested in real web development.

http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/learn/index.htm

[evildrummer]

Thanks, I just know that its related to CGI and that I have never actually done any, I've always just used PHP

[ramie]

Perl is basically a scripting language, same as php, ruby, python, bash or whatever.
It's powerful and has a lot of libraries to extend its core functionality, it has proper code testing modules and is very very fast at parsing data, docs, html or whatever you throw at it.

The wikipedia article on it is a good read if your that way inclined, it will give you a good overview of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl

[bwh2]

perl is awesome. i use perl on a daily basis for a wide variety of tasks, but especially parsing files. i don't think it's a great long-term programming solution, but it's excellent for quick and dirty jobs.

i learned perl here (b/c it's free): http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/

Programming Perl in the O'reilly series is also excellent.

[Ben H]

Perl is useful, but code becomes very ugly very quickly...

ramie: bash isn't a scripting language, it's a shell (Bourne Again SHell,) in which you can write shell scripts. There's a difference ;)

-Ben

[ramie]

Perl is useful, but code becomes very ugly very quickly...

ramie: bash isn't a scripting language, it's a shell (Bourne Again SHell,) in which you can write shell scripts. There's a difference ;)

-Ben

cool! ;) lol