Feburary -- Minimal Perl for UNIX and Linux People
February 2005 Seattle Unix Users Group Meeting |
| Main Topic: | Minimal Perl for UNIX and Linux People |
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Tim Maher |
| Time: | February 8th 2005 (second Tuesday) at 7 p.m. |
| Location: |
TEK Systems (New location - see directions below!) 1120 11th Ave. Room number 420 East Building Bellevue, WA |
| Cost: | Free |
Many UNIX and Linux people would like to learn Perl, but they've heard the language is "weird", and perhaps even "write-only", which gives them pause. Add to this the daunting proposition of grappling with a Camel book (1,092 pages) or even a relatively diminutive Llama book (316 pages), and many decide to make do with what they already know.
But really, UNIX people don't have to learn much Perl to begin to reap its rewards. That's because Perl encompasses the functionality of certain core UNIX commands, including grep, sed, and awk, and can be easily approached as as an enhancement on those.
This talk illustrates the core features of the Minimal Perl approach through one-liners and scripts that are of general interest and applicability to UNIX people.
See http://TeachMePerl.com/publications/5perlcmds.pdf for sample one-liners.
See http://teachmeperl.com for information about Tim's upcoming book that has the same title as this talk.
Since 1982, Tim Maher of Seattle-based Consultix has taught many thousands of software professionals to program in Unix-related languages. He's the developer of the first Perl beautifier, the founder of the Seattle Perl Users Group (SPUG), the author of Manning's "Minimal Perl for UNIX and Linux People", a winner of the Perl community's White Camel award, and a frequent speaker at Perl conferences.
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| 1120 112th Ave NE |
| Suite 420 |
| Bellevue, WA 98004> |
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