Okay so I've decided to learn PERL. As I am VERY burned out on PHP after making an online hacking game in it and working on it for a month after release. Now that its almost done other than maintenance. I'm VERY good at php now. However I tried to do C and quickly thew my hands up (maybe too quickly). So I decided to learn PERL just to learn it. I'm curious, what are some practical uses for PERL (online. but more importantly offline/background/not used by public), does perl use the same if, else, while and the like as PHP? Thanks

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I dont even no the first thing about perl.
i also dont reckon i ever will, i dont think ill bother learning it unless i find out wot it does and need to use it

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Well, if you say you know PHP, then Perl won't be hard to learn at all, a lot is identical in the syntax and yeah it has all that stuff like you asked, if else elseif print while for foreach and etc. I know a friend who use Perl for his scripting and he says Perl is good, for me learning Perl a bit was quite annoying, I didn't like the syntax, I prefer to further use PHP, also looked into Python and Ruby and I can say that they are much more better for scripting than Perl, but knowing all of them at least the basics is quite good..

Personally, I would say continue to play with simple C and not with Perl, but if you have the will and time, look into all of them

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im gonna have a look at perl and see wot its like
dont no about anyone else but at a quick glance it looks a bit like SQL.

i would rather learn something else than perl. i wanna learn AJAX.

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AJAX is just a style of JS Sten, not a language of itself if I recall.

@Quatrux: I have found the syntax is almost identical and the like just not as powerful as PHP. I find this problem in BOTH my C and Perl scripts: The console window closes immediately.

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Perl is just like PHP for the most part, they end up doing the same stuff really, more or less.

I can't stand Python or Ruby, but I'm pretty sure they are not web driven like PHP and Perl are.

C is just more universal, an actual programming language that has code compiled into a native executable program for an operating system. (not interpreted any higher than such).

C is also the older non OOP (Object Oriented Programming), then again go for it, if you do not require anything more object oriented specific (while I do use a C++ compiler, I don't actually use much that is specific to it).

Visual Basic and Object Pascal (as well as their .NET variants) are also another option on the programming scale.

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What I've found with PERL is that its a pain to run...even on freeBSD.

I think I'll stick with Non-Object Oriented Languages. I think PHP is the only scripting languages I need to know (and the only one that came easy).

So I'm going to try with C/C++.

PERL is just too...old I guess and not well documented.

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