I tried to put myself in the place of a 13 y/o kid with no programming experience sitting at his Windows/ME machine staring at a screen that looked like: 

C:\>perl
ashdahskjd
kajhsdakjshd

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I am aware that play.pl has scoping problems, but once his copy of Programming Perl for Win32 arrives, he may arrive at the point where he knows what scoping is.

I also thought about what would happen if his "favorite editor" is Word. 

C:\>perl test.pl
Can't open perl script "test.pl": No such file or directory

C:\>dir test.pl
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8C87-E163

 Directory of C:\

File Not Found

C:\>dir test*
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8C87-E163

 Directory of C:\

02/09/08  07:18a        <DIR>          test
02/09/08  05:16p                19,456 test.pl.doc
               2 File(s)         19,456 bytes
                            302,397,440 bytes free

C:\>perl test.pl.doc
Unrecognized character \xD0 at test.pl.doc line 1.

C:\>

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Well It's better than the Abottoire, but Yorkshire!

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Perl What for? by BrowserUk
in thread Perl What for? by NoobiePerlist

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