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Re: Perl problems

Subject: Re: Perl problems
From: "Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)"
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 05:32:59 +0200
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 21:52 -0400, Joe Wamsley wrote:
> I'm in the process of trying learn Perl as my first programming language
> and ran into a snag that I can't seem to correct. Basically what I'm
> trying to do is run it as a stand-alone application. It should work, but
> for some reason it wont execute. So I tried a whereis perl and it told
> me that it was installed at /usr/bin/perl. I also tried a perl -v and
> that works without problem. Here is the script I'm running from the
> secede2.pl file.

  As a side note, now that you know it was just a PATH mistake.

  Perl as a first programming language ! This is madness.

  You may consider using python instead, much much cleaner. Check out
python.org tutorial (very good).

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Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint@xxxxxxxxx>
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