stinkingpig Wrote: > Slimserver is a tough place to learn -- I do fairly well in Perl, but > it's quite complex, and I haven't been able to make any headway in it > the few times I've taken a stab at something. I'm lucky to have two > hours in a row to work on a side project like this, and Slimserver is > not the kind of project that awards that level of hacking unless you're > > able to take advantage of the CLI to make your project work. >
I guess it's several things: 1. Perl doesn't quite work like most of the languages I've learned (BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, QBasic, VBA). It's more modern, more web-aware. 2. The Internet resources out there really suck. They leap from simple "Hello world" examples right into a full dissertation of every command. There's no in-between. I'm used to a simple progression of how to print something on the screen to looping to user input. It stops right after looping - I don't see a way to create user input via a prompt. Getting data from a file seems to be well documented though. Frustrating. 3. Perl is extremely modular. There are so many CPAN modules it's mind-boggling. This also discourages learning how to do these things from scratch - CPAN has them all for you. It's good mental exercise though, so I'll keep at it. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20518 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
