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 Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject: Perl or C? |
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I was planning on learning C recently and then moving onto C++ when i got done with that. I am looking at the "for dummies" book series at www.dummies.com and I see Perl under programming, i was wondering if anyone could tell me the benefits and disadvantadges of each. I am running windows if that helps somehwere somehow. and if u could say what doesnt work on linux too thatd be gr8.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Finally, I'm done sigh'ing after reading your post.
Are you sure you have the right to say "when i got done with that"?
Please don't get Qndre style, if you know what I mean. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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Depends what you want to do. Perl is for quickie scripting. You won't find any serious app written in perl. In fact, almost every app you can buy in the store/online was written in C or C++, with a small number in VB.
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Perl is also a scripting language; I used to mess around with it for my web-scripts; but it's kinda been outdated to PHP.
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I'm gonna get trashed for this, but I like ASP.Net
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| CypherJF wrote: | | Perl is also a scripting language; I used to mess around with it for my web-scripts; but it's kinda been outdated to PHP. |
PHP is good for websites, but perl is still king for any command line scripts that deal a lot with text. Perl's strong suit is manipulating text. The language is setup so there are at least 50 different ways to do anything.
I'd say if you want to learn a lot about regex and text manipulating, learn Perl. If you want to do a lot with numbers, or any type of game, continue with C. If you like to learn a bit about regex without learning another language, try out Regex Coach. |
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| Right; as that was the original intent for Perl. It's a hefty language; and something that's good to know. |
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| Solo Ace wrote: | Finally, I'm done sigh'ing after reading your post.
Are you sure you have the right to say "when i got done with that"?
Please don't get Qndre style, if you know what I mean. |
it's not like he says "so in a FEW HOURS when i get done with that"
he just said when he gets done with it, yeesh
| D1st0rt wrote: | | I'm gonna get trashed for this, but I like ASP.Net |
...what's wrong with normal ASP? |
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Poor SuSE. 
Meh, I thought it sounded like "YEAH I'LL LEARN C WITHIN A FEW MINUTES, THEN I DRINK SOME COFFEE AND THEN I'LL LEARN SOME C++ OR SOMETHING".  |
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| Solo Ace wrote: | | Meh, I thought it sounded like "YEAH I'LL LEARN C WITHIN A FEW MINUTES, THEN I DRINK SOME COFFEE AND THEN I'LL LEARN SOME C++ OR SOMETHING". |
I know people like that. They work the drive-thru. |
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| ASP is MS proprietary isn't it? Ew. |
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