Front page | perl.beginners |
Postings from August 2023
RE: My progress in Perl
Thread Previous
|
Thread Next
From:
Claude Brown via beginners
Date:
August 8, 2023 02:03
Subject:
RE: My progress in Perl
Message ID:
SYBP282MB252716A6A7AEBF20E69FB67AC70DA@SYBP282MB2527.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Steve,
I agree. Someone just starting out should go with Python. It pains me to say it, but Perl isn’t a good skills investment.
My team and I program every day in Perl – we have 100’s of libraries and system integrations. I love it and it is my first choice for backend work. Sadly, we are trying to figure out our path to Python. We barely know Python, so it will be a difficult – but necessary – journey.
Cheers,
Claude.
From: Steve Park <rich.japh@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 11:49 AM
To: Andy Bach <afbach@gmail.com>
Cc: William Torrez Corea <willitc9888@gmail.com>; beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: My progress in Perl
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Honestly, my advise is if you are beginning to learn programming using perl in 2023. Don't.
Pick up python and go from there.
If you already know some perl and want to advance, yes go right ahead.
2023, is perl dead? no. It's a tool and it's still a swiss army of programming language and lot can be done.
I would say writing concise and compact programming for regex related processing, it still is right up there with anything out there today.
But def if you are learning programming in 2023, you should start w/ python.
To be truly useful, you have to learn several language but python(or to lot of extend, javascript) should be the first language you should learn(until AI can take over the world).
Having said this, I still love my perl.
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 12:31 PM Andy Bach <afbach@gmail.com<mailto:afbach@gmail.com>> wrote:
Yeah, I learned Perl back in the V4 days; I was sort of new to linux admin though a programmer in school and after learning sed/awk/grep to handle digesting logs and munging data files I heard of Perl. It was a bit like finding crack cocaine, all sorts of tasks became easy and I wrote scripts to handle everything. Having a need was the motivation, not following the books, though I did have a copy of Programming Perl that had about 40 scotch tape tabs marking places for reference. Other books, the Perl Monks site and finally a near-by Perl Mongers group really helped me find the Perl communtiy.
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 12:24 PM William Torrez Corea <willitc9888@gmail.com<mailto:willitc9888@gmail.com>> wrote:
I started testing some extensions of CPAN but I don't understand anything. I only execute and then proceed with a book. The name of the book is Beginning Perl of Curtis Ovid Poe.
I started with a lot of passion but then lost interest, the monotony conquered me. Actually I am learning references and Complex Data Structures in Perl.
I have a lot of doubts in my mind:
What is my purpose with this language?
In my country don't exist use of this language
I am boring and tired
I must be a success!
PD: Add your anecdote with this language.
--
With kindest regards, William.
⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org
⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
--
a
Andy Bach,
afbach@gmail.com<mailto:afbach@gmail.com>
608 658-1890 cell
608 261-5738 wk
Thread Previous
|
Thread Next