Back in 99 I was writing an RDBMS in C and needed to extend my SQL parser to include sub-queries. I was having a bad time of it until a friend (a guru programmer with a number of OO patents to his credit) suggested writing a hack parser in Perl until I'd got the syntax sorted. So I went out and ordered the Camel Book and "Advanced Perl Programming" and got sidetracked by the beautiful idea of fully dynamic applications (ie the screen/form is not fixed but is customised depending on the user, the reference data and any number of other factors) built on an apache/perl platform. I've never finished any of the above projects (although I've come pretty close a couple of times :) but then again, I don't get paid any money to write Perl or C, so my day job (Oracle DBA) has to take precedence. I must admit though, that my breadth of vision and understanding has increasing enormously after joining PerlMonks: there are just so many Monks with a fantastic understanding of Perl and the related technologies that every day there's something new to learn here.

I must point out that my initial searches for Perl help on google/deja-news always ended up with the answer in a post from Abigail. So this post also doubles up as a big, public "thank you" to Abigail. And a slightly smaller, but just as public, "thank you" to perrin for providing my first link to PerlMonks (from the mod_perl mailing list).

rdfield

In reply to Re: Rolling into Perl by rdfield
in thread Rolling into Perl by robartes

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