Perl problems

[Alfred Vahau]

>Perl as a first programming language ! This is madness.

This is a Ubuntu list. Please refrain from casting mud
on other people's creativity. This is taking into account
that there are Perl, Python, Java, C++, etc. programmers
who use Ubuntu as their preferred operating system
to develop their applications.

Alfred,





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).
>
>  
>
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