Monthly Archives: May 2004

Feeling guilty about posting nothing but negatives on Perl I felt I better post a positive. I like Perl's "no unnecessary limits" philosophy. And with that I like the variable-length…

I have another issue to note about Perl. Before I note it I'd like to say that I'm really digging Perl. I'm seeing that Perl will replace a number of…

It's a good book. I wish I could have more time to dedicate to reading and working the exercises. I'll be out-of-town this weekend and won't make much progress. I've…

Working through "Learning Perl" I've got a problem with strings. Specifically the difference b/t single-quoted and double-quoted strings and the use of the backslash character. In the Single-quoted strings section…

I am writing an entry and want to have code show-up in a seperate block. You know, like all the cool people do. Lets see if it works. System.out.println("I hope…

I am going with the "Learning Perl" book. I was sold by one of the comments in my previous post on the subject. Check back for questions I come up…