The purpose of programming is usually to achieve some real life objective. To solve some mathematical problem or to implement some idea.
Perl is a very pleasant language to do these things. Like all good things, like all complex things you have to learn its syntax to unlock its power. Perl has a few data types called scalars, arrays and hashes. You have to get some familiarity with the various $ signs and @ signs you see in a perl program. Functions can be called from anywhere and global variables are the norm as perl is a a scripting language. I have always used it to my advantage for a really long time, mainly for doing web CGI, even to do some UNIX daemons to talk to UNIX domain sockets for doing backend work, to do some text processing and to generate arbitrary text output. The CPAN archive(www.cpan.org) is very useful because perl has a rich library of readymade tools and APIs you can use to solve tough problems. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
