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How do I program and use Perl?
I've been learning programming in my spare time (not much) and have heard of Perl as an easy place to start. I would like to try my hand at learning it, but have encountered some embarassing simple problems. I have an eMac with Tiger, v10.4.8. I'm curious as to what application or program I would use to write a simple Perl program, and what app. or prog. I would use to execute said program. Do I need to download one, or can I use TextEdit or a similar program to write? Same for execution. Thanks!!!
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Ok, you can write PERL (a script) in any text editor and save the file as something.pl. I prefer to use the ActiveState Editor (a free download). PERL is run from the command line and you need to have the PERL interpreter installed to run the script. See the links below. I would suggest that python or php are easier to learn. All three are used for system management functions and CGI backends on web pages.
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