Perl problems

Joe Wamsley jw at netrattler.net
Thu May 12 03:40:25 UTC 2005


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Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 21:52 -0400, Joe Wamsley wrote:
> 
>>I'm in the process of trying learn Perl as my first programming language
>>and ran into a snag that I can't seem to correct. Basically what I'm
>>trying to do is run it as a stand-alone application. It should work, but
>>for some reason it wont execute. So I tried a whereis perl and it told
>>me that it was installed at /usr/bin/perl. I also tried a perl -v and
>>that works without problem. Here is the script I'm running from the
>>secede2.pl file.
> 
> 
>   As a side note, now that you know it was just a PATH mistake.
> 
>   Perl as a first programming language ! This is madness.
> 
>   You may consider using python instead, much much cleaner. Check out
> python.org tutorial (very good).
> 
> 
Yeah I checked it out and also have a book on it and I am learning that
as well.

Joe
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