Background on all of this........... I am not a usual programmer I haven't learned any language (except macro language in a hexeditor). I am an experimental programmer trying to find out the potential of Perl. Why? I want to have a program in C++ called 'Counter' that can generate experimental programs by adding files together (files interpreted as large integers).
It seems clear to me that you would be better off paying someone else to create your program for you. A word of advice though - do not force your implementation details on them. You are clearly not experienced in software design. Describe what you really want, and let them figure out how to implement it.

I want to have a program in C++ called 'Counter' that can generate experimental programs by adding files together (files interpreted as large integers).
This is exactly what I'm talking about: do NOT ask for stuff like that because if you're lucky they'll only laugh at you. If you're unlucky, you'll end up having to pay for the implementation of a completely useless program.

A certain coder on Rent A Coder.com told me that the best way to do this is a C++ program that generates Perl programs because Perl programs are hardware safe, so that dangerous instructions cannot harm the hardware of the computer.
That coder is full of it. If a C program can harm certain hardware, a perl program can almost certainly do the same. By the way, I'd be more concerned about programs messing with the data / programs on my installation.

Why a game? Because I cannot understand most of the complex Perl programs that are around, they have complex interfaces and mostly code have to be added and all kind of extra things have to be installed like language extensions, just to start the programs up.
The fact that some program is a game does not necessarily make installing it any easier.

But games mostly have a simple interface, that's why I choose to study games.
Which will at most tell you that, yes, a game has been written in perl. It won't tell you that perl is acceptable for your project, since you clearly have no idea how to test that. That's only to be expected if you have no real programming experience, but if I may repeat myself for a bit, you should try get clear what you want first and then let someone who does have the experience do the program design and implementation. It seems you don't know what this "Counter" project you want is even supposed to do.

update: slightly better structure, and spelling edits.

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In reply to Re: Do complicated Perl games really exist? by Joost
in thread Do complicated Perl programs really exist? by newbie

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