...does what it says on the tin. Perl and Beer : comments.
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
|||
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25 |
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
31
|
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
When they say "there's more than one way to do it", they mean there's no right way to do it.
Get your head around refs sooner rather than later.
{ is not the same as ( is not the same as [ - if using one does something random, try the other; similarly with $ % and @. Being Perl, you won't always get an error for using the wrong one, just unexpected behaviour.
Just dump all your data into a bunch of hashes, it's easier.
$myData is not the same as $mydata; however both will happily work.
Nearly everything useful is in a CPAN library. CPAN won't be available in the next place you want to run your code. If it is, then chasing down all the package dependencies will be a major headache.
Date/time handling is terrible in the base language. (See above re CPAN).
Despite all that, it's sometimes the easiest option to use Perl.