Subj : Beginners
To   : Bo Simonsen
From : tony summerfelt
Date : Sun Apr 11 2004 10:42 pm

Sat, Apr 10/04 00:36 AM, you wrote to me:

 BS> Aha. Maybe there should be a FAQ for this echo, but I see the interest
 BS> isn't that big. :/

the perl faq is easy enough to find...

 ts>> it didn't really teach a lot of perl5, mostly perl4.

 BS> Is there a big difference?

perl5 is the same as perl4, but with the oo tacked on to it...


 ts>> and at the time activestate was called 'hip communications'.
 ts>> their version of perl was a lot closer to the 'gsar' version of
 ts>> perl at the time...

 BS> Hmm..?

microsoft actually commissioned a version of perl for windows nt4 (resource 
kit). i think the company that created it was 'hip communications'

Gurusamy Sarathy is the guy who built first really good version of perl5 for 
windows (5.002xxx). it's generally known as the 'gsar' version. i think he 
works for activestate now...

 BS> Aha, but you don't have a good reference?

best reference i've seen is o'reilly's 'perl in a nutshell'. must have book if 
you don't have the camel book or the llama book. it's more orgnaized than the 
two of them...

 BS> regex is the cool thing about perl, it's seems like a big mistery to a
 BS> person which is unfamilear with regex.

i like being able to do stuff like:

$x++ if ! defined($x);

which  is 'increment x if it doesn't exist :)

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