RE: Perl - Was Unix time conversion function

You can always outsource your perl development to me. :)

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Hately, Mike (NESL-IT) wrote:

> Perl kind of makes sense but I haven't reached the point where it clicks and
> becomes natural. I still need to think about it very hard when I'm writing
> it. Hence, a lot of the time I fall back on shell scripts supplemented by
> pre-written (some would say shamelessly ripped off) perl code for the stuff
> that would get really messy is ksh.
>
> Regards,
> Mike Hately
>
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> 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?
>
> RF
>
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