Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2007-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
David Baron wrote: ... perl discussion snipped ... With Windows, we bought a nice debugger--any one know of such a beast GPLed under Linux? Being able to watch those vairables was a life-saver. A decent IDE would be nice as well (For using .net, one has Microsoft's Visual Studion in

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-31 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 20:22 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: * s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Dec 30 20:14 -0600]: PERL style has changed radically over the years as has its usage (PERL==PErsonal Report Language and who uses it for this nowadays?). Object Practical Extraction

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language Or, Practical Extraction and Report Language (per the man page) Positively Eclectic Rubbish Lister Or, Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (per the Camel Book) I see, you don't read this

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Dec 31 12:43 -0600]: Perl is Perl, nothing else. Even though the man page says so... Or the Camel Book or whatever. I've been admonished by Perl core team members and Perl Monks and many from the Perl mailing lists. Sounds like a rather humorless

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-31 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 11:14 -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language Or, Practical Extraction and Report Language (per the man page) Positively Eclectic Rubbish Lister Or, Pathologically Eclectic

Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread rocky
Hey all, I wish all of you a Happy New Year! I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get started on how to programming Perl in Debian? I mean what is the file extension for the perl? Is it .cgi? Do I need to use any compiler for perl? what is the best choice? How can I

Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread rocky
Hey all, I wish all of you a Happy New Year! I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get started on how to programming Perl in Debian? I mean what is the file extension for the perl? Is it .cgi? Do I need to use any compiler for perl? what is the best choice? How can I

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:06:51AM -0800, rocky wrote: } Hey all, } } I wish all of you a Happy New Year! } } I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get } started on how to programming Perl in Debian? I mean what is the file } extension for the perl? Is it .cgi? Do I

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:06:51AM -0800, rocky wrote: Hey all, I wish all of you a Happy New Year! I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get started on how to programming Perl in Debian? Hi Rocky, welcome to the world of fun! At this point you can learn Bash,

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread ccostin
Now, my personal views: Perl is the Visual Basic of the open source world. It's possible to write good Perl code, but the structure and facilities of the language encourage bad habits and unreadable code. If you want to learn an open source scripting language, learn Ruby or Python. I prefer

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ccostin wrote: Now, my personal views: Perl is the Visual Basic of the open source world. It's possible to write good Perl code, but the structure and facilities of the language encourage bad habits and unreadable code. If you want to learn an open source scripting language, learn Ruby or

RE: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread David Christensen
rocky wrote: I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Get this book first, read it, and do all of the exercises: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/index.html After that, get these books as references: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/index.html

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Joe
rocky wrote: Hey all, I wish all of you a Happy New Year! I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get started on how to programming Perl in Debian? I mean what is the file extension for the perl? Is it .cgi? Do I need to use any compiler for perl? what is the best

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Rocky I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get started on how to programming Perl in Debian? In my opinion you should go through *Leaning Perl* by O'Reilly. I quite liked it. I am sure you will find it somewhere in the web. To install perl do *apt-get install

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:06:42AM -0800, rocky wrote: From: rocky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Perl Programming within Debian Organization: http://groups.google.com Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Injection-Info: 73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com; posting-host

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 05:57:47PM +, Joe wrote: There are certainly more attractive languages than Perl, which has a few features which are not intuitive, but I don't think any have the same range of libraries. You can find a ready-made module to do almost anything you can imagine.

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:48, Samuel Bächler wrote: Hi Rocky I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get started on how to programming Perl in Debian? In my opinion you should go through *Leaning Perl* by O'Reilly. I quite liked it. I am sure you will

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 21:20 +0200, David Baron wrote: [...snip...] PERL style has changed radically over the years as has its usage (PERL==PErsonal Report Language and who uses it for this nowadays?). Object oriented programming (with silly syntax) can be as good as newer languages. PERL

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 30 December 2006 21:53, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 21:20 +0200, David Baron wrote: [...snip...] PERL style has changed radically over the years as has its usage (PERL==PErsonal Report Language and who uses it for this nowadays?). Object oriented programming

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Leonid Grinberg
OK, several things: Perl does NOT encourage bad behavior. It simply makes it easier to code poorly. Perl is not as difficult to learn as people say it is. The best place to start would be Google. That is how I learned it. The package ``perl'' will have the interpreter. The package perl-doc will

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread John K Masters
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:49:08 -0500 Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, several things: Perl does NOT encourage bad behavior. It simply makes it easier to code poorly. Perl is not as difficult to learn as people say it is. The best place to start would be Google. That is how I

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread s. keeling
Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [much thoughtful commentry snipped] Now, my personal views: Perl is the Visual Basic of the open source world. It's possible to write Ha, hahahahahahahahahahahahaa ... Ahh. Thanks. I'll go back and read the rest of your post now. VB. Ha. Good one.

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread s. keeling
David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:48, Samuel Bächler wrote: Hi Rocky I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get started on how to programming Perl in Debian? In my opinion you should go through *Leaning Perl* by O'Reilly. I

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Dec 30 20:14 -0600]: PERL style has changed radically over the years as has its usage (PERL==PErsonal Report Language and who uses it for this nowadays?). Object Practical Extraction and Reporting Language Or, Practical Extraction and Report