It's a good scripting language because of how well regular expressions are integrated into the language. It's also easy to pick up and use, because it's pretty lenient in specific syntax. I can't recommend a book though, as most of what I know of perl has been from reading other peoples scripts and asking some of my programmer friends "how would I accomplish X?"
On 5/14/05, Eugene Hercun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I was reading the "UNIX System Administration Handbook" the other day, > and I really liked the idea of programming your own scheduled > automated tasks. Mr. Holland made a very good point regarding this > issue > "Ok, your computer is doing some "inefficient work", but that's what > computers are > good for -- working. Save the thinking for people." - Mr. Nick Holland > > Anyway, I was curious, the "UNIX System" book mentioned that Perl is a > good programming language to use for scripting, but it does not > explain why. > What are some good books for beginner through advanced scripting? I > poked around amazon.com <http://amazon.com> and the user reviews are > generally useless. > > Eugene > > -- Abe Al-Saleh And then came the Apocolypse. It actually wasn't that bad, everyone got the day off and there were barbeques all around.
