Oracle-L: RE: Perl - Was Unix time conversion function

From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:58:53 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0053C1E7.20030128075853@fatcity.com>

For me, it was either Perl or an icky bass-ackward pipe-laden awk/sed/regex unmaintainable bastion. OK, I couldn't get rid of the regex. While I'll not be entering the Obfuscated Perl contest anytime soon, I think Perl is much easier to understand for a "traditional" programmer (Assembly, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, and a little C). I bought O'Reilly's "Learning Perl", and most of what I needed to do was in the book as an example.

Also, on scant nights I've even been rolling my own KISS-method Perl/Tk OEM replacement. Sorry Jared, but sometimes I like GUIs! :)

Rich

Rich Jesse                              System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                     Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI

USA -----Original Message----- <mailto:robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com> ] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Cary.... I once thought I wanted to do some Perl coding... So I bought a book and started to play with it. It made my head bleed... literally I had little droplets of blood emerging from my head.... They rushed me to the hospital and put me in the Perl ward where I languished for days on IV's of Mountain Dew and pulverized Ritz crackers..... it was close.

In my mind there is nothing obvious about Perl, this coming from and old C coder who did pointers and linked lists in his sleep years ago. I don't know, maybe I was having a bad day and it's time to get my "learning Perl" book out again....

Anyone else feel that way about Perl or am I a lone wolf in a Perl world?

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