Robert,
Jump-starting yourself with knowledge of something similar is a tried and
true technique. It's a little harder to make it work with Perl, though,
since Perl is so different. Larry Wall in the Camel Book compares parts of
it to Basic, parts to Fortran, parts to C, and so on. Before I got to the
end of the section I was reminded strongly of the blind men and the
elephant. I don't have any Unix experience to speak of; as I slowly acquire
more (if you will allow me to make that claim based on Cygwin and MacOS X),
I find that some of the features (e.g. dollar-sign interpolation,
multi-line strings) are kin to shell features.
But parts of Perl are simply not like anything in my experience, and some
features (like "<>" as an input operator) still strike me as Perl
weirdness.
Tom Wyant
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