hep a tombot out yall
― El Tomboto, Friday, 1 February 2008 21:49 (seventeen years ago)
#1: Use Python
― mattttt, Friday, 1 February 2008 21:50 (seventeen years ago)
^ or do you hafta use Perl?
― stet, Friday, 1 February 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah I got ahead of my smartass self. If you get screwed into using Perl and don't have a choice, your best bet is two O'Reilly books: The llama book, and if you don't know regexps yet, the owl book.
― mattttt, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:06 (seventeen years ago)
ok. I can use python but most if not all of my shop uses/knows perl, so that would be preferred as I could ask for experienced help with perl while I'd be basically out on my own with py
― El Tomboto, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:09 (seventeen years ago)
+ lots and lots of the legacy scripts I need to be able to read and edit are in perl
― El Tomboto, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)
just get the camel book and be done with it: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/
even if you don't end up doing lots of perl, the camel book is a great read too.
― s.clover, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:27 (seventeen years ago)
Seconding the camel book, although though it exposes the maze that is Larry Wall's mind.
― stet, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)
Hey, what's the deal with perl 6
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:34 (seventeen years ago)
not ready yet. But hey, they've got a lolcode parser running on it
― stet, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:35 (seventeen years ago)
I wish all our scripts were lolcode
― El Tomboto, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:43 (seventeen years ago)