What Was Your First Programming Language?

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

(07-08-2015 05:19 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

(07-08-2015 04:11 PM)emece67 Wrote:  (& I hate Perl)

Two books I can recommend:
Modern Perl
Higher-Order Perl

Kind regards
Thomas

...and also the various O'Reilly books about PERL. Part of my job involves extracting information from massive log files, and I can't think of anything better than PERL for a job like that, and because it is interpreted, you can get instant feedback to see if your script works or not, without having to go though a compile and link cycle. We have a huge tool for processing the output of an information gathering script on our systems that is written entirely in PERL.