Re: Perl Programming within Debian
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? I mean what is the file
extension for the perl? Is it .cgi? Do I need to use any compiler for
perl? what is the best choice? 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)?
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 demaged 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.
Some more information: Perl has a vast array of libraries or modules,
and Perl tutorials will explain how to get them from the CPAN archive
and install them under Linux. Debian has many of the more important
modules as packages, and it is easier to install them using Debian
tools. Several of the Net::xxx modules are contained in the package
libnet-perl, for example. Google will help find which modules are
available this way, and in which packages. Perl itself is part of the
Debian core, and will already be installed with some module packages.
There are certainly more attractive languages than Perl, which has a
few features which are not intuitive, but I don't think any have the
same range of libraries. You can find a ready-made module to do almost
anything you can imagine.
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