On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:06:51AM -0800, rocky wrote: > Hey all, > > I wish all of you a Happy New Year! > > I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get > started on how to programming Perl in Debian? Hi Rocky, welcome to the world of fun! At this point you can learn Bash, perl, ruby, python or php, all with the same amount of ease. > I mean what is the file extension for the perl? perl is an interpreted language as oppose to a compiled one like C. you just edit a text file and give it to the perl interpreter: ------------------------------- vi myfirstperlscript.txt perl myfirstperlscript.txt ------------------------------- there technical is not need for an 'extension' (ala MSDOS). But the popular convention is to use '.pl'. > Is it .cgi? Do I need to use any compiler for > perl? what is the best choice? To begin, you will need the basic perl setup which is part of all Gnu systems. As you progress, you may need more functions. > How can I test my work(For instance in > PHP programming I can use Firefox browse to the file I want to see the > output)? If you just write a basic perl program that is part of a web server, you just go to the console and run it like this: ------------------------------- perl myprogram.pl ------------------------------- > > I was trying to search on the net and it did give me lots of results. > But because I'm in China and due to the earthquake took place in Taiwan > which very badly damaged the network, most of the webpages could not > loaded. Thanks to the google, which its servers are scattered all over > the world. Get help through google group is my only way now. Oh well, hope that get fixed. if the meanwhile, the best thing to do is find some tutorial from google and to find a simple project that you want to do as a way to try out your new skills. One more thing: on unix systems, the first line of any program is setup a certain way: for perl, this is: #!/usr/bin/perl for bash, this is: #!/bin/bash Here is a simple program: ------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; print "Hello World!\n" ------------------------------- the 2 'use' lines are very important to use to make sure that you program well. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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