Perl is a great language, but please listen to this old perl programmer's advice:
1. You can write totally unreadable perl. It is probably the single worst language in this regard most programmers will run into. Be careful to make your code readable.
2. Keep your amount of perl small. 200-300 lines is a good bit of it.
So for quick bang it out scripts that want to parse text etc... perl is great. For writing a major application, not so much.
1. You can write totally unreadable perl. It is probably the single worst language in this regard most programmers will run into. Be careful to make your code readable.
2. Keep your amount of perl small. 200-300 lines is a good bit of it.
So for quick bang it out scripts that want to parse text etc... perl is great. For writing a major application, not so much.