[Lvlug] Re: Perl (was: Blog off to a...uh...Start)

[Scott Piccotti]

On Jun 21, 2004, at 4:06 PM, Faber Fedor wrote:
>> Who wants a Perl Crash Course or something like it for LVLUG?  If so,
>> what stuff do you want to see?
>
> How about reasons why Perl is compared to line noise. :-)

Wow, you're evil ;-)

Actually, that might might be a fun topic- "Intro to Obfuscation".
Not useful really, but fun anyway.

I haven't touched Perl in years, and I'm by no means a Real Programmer 
anyway. The "crash course" idea sounds great, unless everything is 
going to go right over my head. I'd be especially interested in hearing 
about things that are unique to Perl, or idiomatic things that 
distinguish a "native speaker" from someone with only a passing 
acquaintance with the language. Or are we then back to the line noise 
thing? :-)

So who's doing the crash course in LISP?

-scott
(who might be able to give an into to Pd, but not much else)