Confessions of a Fugitive Mind
March 12, 2003
Perl Girl
I've got a 1000 page O'Reilly book all about programming in Perl that I need to devour over the next few days. Ideally, I'd like to have a plan in place for my first project by Friday night, which means I'll need to develop a basic understanding of Perl and regular expressions in the next few days. Ugh.
Posted by criminal at March 12, 2003 12:18 PM
Comments
Perl isn't too bad when it comes to learning. The hardest bit is probably the regular expressions, which are hard because they are very historical, showing their organic evolution. '$' matches the end of the line, except if you gave it the 's' flag, in the same manner '.' matches everything but a new line, except if you use the flag. How's that for bad?
Anyways, don't let perl worry you, it's actually a really easy language. If you need any help, drop me a line.
Posted by: Chris at March 14, 2003 03:43 PM
You can do it!! I have faith in your genius, wonderful sister. Just buckle down and kick a little @$$. We're all rooting for you back here on the homefront, so keep up the good work.
Posted by: Barbie at March 16, 2003 10:39 AM