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Perl Programmers

How many of you in here?

Luke1986

2:53 pm on Oct 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

Hi Everyone,

I was just wondering how many Perl programmers are in this forum and what they do for a living?

Luke1986

9:45 pm on Oct 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

Er Yeah,

I guess there's no Perl programmers in here then!

ggrot

9:57 pm on Oct 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

I've touched on perl, but I moved on to PHP very quickly. However, they are very similarly structured languages. Hehe, I actually started by programming CGI stuff in C. That was a BAD idea.

oilman

10:05 pm on Oct 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

Luke - there are acually a fair number of extremely talented perl programmers here. I'll leave it to them to speak up if they want to.

Didn't want to leave you hanging out there :)

Feel free to post your questions with confidence that you'll get solid help.

littleman

10:48 pm on Oct 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

I am more of a scripter. There are those like me who play with perl daily but wouldn't call themselves programmers. If you dig down in this forum you'll get a feel for individuals' ability here.

theperlyking

11:18 pm on Oct 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

I'm a perl programmer. Give me about 20 years and I might even be a good perl coder :)

For a living I do programming/web design using VB (stand alone apps), Perl for server side apps. I hand code HTML and tinker with graphics which I find rewarding though difficult!

nicebloke

11:20 pm on Oct 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

Luke, rememeber there's an enormous amount of great things you can do on the web using perl without actually being a perl programmer. There's loads of free scripts about, all with good documentation etc. Normally just the case of changing a few lines of code in the script and changing the permissions on the server.

Luke1986

11:38 pm on Oct 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

I get your point Nicebloke,

I fiddled with Perl scripts before but learning it has given me a huge amount of understanding of what I was configuring.

I have found Perl rewarding and interesting so far.

nicebloke

12:06 am on Oct 20, 2001 (gmt 0)

(I am no perl programmer!) I get by with just enough knowledge. :) I think.

littleman

12:12 am on Oct 20, 2001 (gmt 0)

Just a bit of case_in_point. Writing scripts will save you a ton of time. Once upon a time I would spend all day making and submitting eight pages to search engines. I took the time to teach myself how to have perl do all that for me and after a while I was submitting 700 pages a day all made on the fly. So, perl took me from 8 to 700, that's 87.5 times more efficient.

Luke1986

12:16 am on Oct 20, 2001 (gmt 0)

Right Then.

Littleman has just proved to me that Perl is VERY useful, I shall be spending my holidays learning it!

sugarkane

12:23 am on Oct 20, 2001 (gmt 0)

> spending my holidays learning it!

Your holidays will be very well spent :)

nicebloke

12:24 am on Oct 20, 2001 (gmt 0)

May the force be with you, Luke.

Luke1986

12:40 am on Oct 20, 2001 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the encouragement and support everyone.

TheLynxEffect

2:41 am on Oct 22, 2001 (gmt 0)

Luke,

it's very important IMHO that you leave yourself very open minded when it comes to learning how to code. I don't have that much experience with any language, but I remain open minded and try and stay easy-to-teach.

I have learnt a lot of stuff from the guys on WMW in the short time that I have been in here. Maybe I digress, but this - I think - is important to remember: Take advice, never throw it back!

bill40

4:18 pm on Oct 22, 2001 (gmt 0)

I bought a book called Instant CGI/Perl....it's great! I dont want to be a programmer, but I still needed to be able to provide certain features on my web sites. CGI scripts offered an easier way to do that. I recommend the book, it comes with tons of pre-written scripts. All you have to do is customise them.

ggrot

4:37 pm on Oct 22, 2001 (gmt 0)

>> Take advice, never throw it back!

Not all advice is good advice.

gethan

4:48 pm on Oct 22, 2001 (gmt 0)

>> Take advice, never throw it back!
>Not all advice is good advice.

The beauty of this forum is that if the advice is bad someone is always happy to say so ;)

Back to the question I'm a

"Perl and Php and Linux and HTML and Javascript and Oracle and Sybase and MySQL and XML and Graphics and Solaris and VB and Java and SEO and Windows (NT+98) and blah blah blah and way too many hats ;)"

programmer, jack of all trades master of none... getting closer though with a few ;)

Perl has been the route too all of the mischief above - talk about the ducting tape of the Internet ... it holds the whole thing together.

volatilegx

10:49 pm on Oct 25, 2001 (gmt 0)

Yes I worship at the altar of perl.

My favorite resource for learning perl was the CPAN [cpan.org] website. I have bought several perl books, but none were as helpful as simply browsing through module documentation. I also enjoy checking out the #perl IRC channel.

I love perl and use it every day to make my life easier and more efficient. I've coded log analyzers, web page submitters, E commerce engines, shopping carts, opt-in mailing lists, cloaking scripts, keyword analyzers, Goto bid trackers/databases, website cloners/mirrors, a SE traffic ROI analyzer, an automatic insult generator, a script encrypter, a commercial linkfarm program... but I don't do contract work any more.