Perl Here I Come
I picked up my first book today because I have decided to teach myself Perl. I have gotten to where I can install most anyscript with ease so now it's time to step up to the plate & learn what I am insalling.
Ok this really isn't a question just more of an anouncement. I am doing it basically for motivation. I hate to fail and hate for people to know I failed even more. I figure if I tell people that I am going to learn perl I won't give up if I hit a few bumps in the road because sooner or later someone will ask me how it all went & if I did quite I would have to let them know I failed.
Oh well I am off to hours of reading 
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Ferret posted this at 05:44 — 23rd December 1999.
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Right now I am trying to figure out the difference between the perl I write on my pc and the perl I would write on a unix box is. This book is not all that clear on this issue.
Since all the applications I write will be for unix boxes how do I make sure I am writing for them?
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JP Stones posted this at 10:48 — 23rd December 1999.
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How is it going?
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Ferret posted this at 18:58 — 23rd December 1999.
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I have never actually had a unix box in front of me. Although I have installed many scripts on my hosts box which is unix. So I know what the file path, permissions should be.
I was thinking of partitioning my hard drive and installing FreeBSD. Would this be the same as a websrever I would use for web hosting it the aspect of writing code on it?
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Malte posted this at 22:00 — 23rd December 1999.
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Most scripts, except for the mentioned issues, will work on both OSes. Only if you go to the system level, like asking a helper application for the current date, or add a user to your LAN, you'll have to think of platform aspects. Besides that, Perl is cross-platform, which is the main reason why its so popular - you can try it out at home on your WinDose and then use it on your UNIX webserver.
Malte
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