Mine was:
print "Hello World\n";
:-)
... and a script to update a postgres DB with billing values...
Greetz,
Wim
Dave Storrs wrote:
>Mine was to write a document-management system for Paine Webber.
>
>Of course, I had the advantage of working with two or three other Perl
>programmers, all of whom were substantially skilled. Still, that was how
>I first got exposed to the language. (AFAIK, PW is still using that
>system; they hired the original team, including me, back a year later to
>expand it. It was pretty cool too...it could manage 100,000s of docs,
>could do fax, email, etc. And this was all back in 1996 or so.)
>
>Dave
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Dave Turner wrote:
>
>>Mine just got completed after about 6 months of on and off work. It is a
>>CGI app to allow a merchant to update items for sale via a web page. Adds
>>them on one side, and check boxes allow you to choose which to get rid of
>>on the other side. It writes items to a small file -- it's too small a
>>number to use any kind of real database, but then when it's called up from
>>their site, it dynamically builds the html for the user from that file.
>>
>>And I'm still learning... :-)
>>
>>( I want to be able to add pics to this app next... lol )
>>
>>At 03:54 PM 11/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>Mine was only about 4 months ago and it was an online shopping catalog
>>>browser. Good thing I only had to link into shopping cart and credit card
>>>verification code!
>>>
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>>>
>>>>>>>>"Brett" == Brett W McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>>>>
>>>Brett> My first Perl script, from 1998 or 1999
>>>
>>>My first Perl script was from a decade earlier than that.
>>>
>>>You young'uns. :)
>>>
>>>
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