perl

i was directed to ask you guys, so sorry for the copy/paste:

i have a quick question for you:

i have the itch to write a program in PERL. my ultimate goal is this: i have the learning program daisy.exe, and i would like to create a way for daisy to passively access wikipedia and use the articles as input. that way, when i'm not talking to daisy, it can access wiki and get more knowledge about a greater variety of things. when i brought this up on /r9k/ a while back, people were generally disinterested. the only helpful suggestion was that i write a program in PERL that would get this done.

originally i thought that there was maybe an app or add-on or something that somebody had already written for it, and i could just install that and tweak it a bit. but, since i have to apparently write a program, how hard is it to write in PERL? i have zero experience with writing in anything, but as this is just a hobby, i have plenty of time to teach myself if it is worth it.

so /g/, how hard is PERL? given the description of what i want to do, is this remotely feasible?

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to answer your question :
as i do most of my programing in perl , i can tell you that most of the horrible things people say are right .
first of all the syntax is complex and fucked up , that you will forget what you wanted to write after 5 minutes because you will spend to much time trying to figure out how to implement even small things .
second , you will never ever be able to read it again and understand what it was about , heck you will not even be able to just read it because all the obscure characters in the code .
third , the interpreter will bombard you with cryptic error messages that will make you delete all your files and encrypt your own HDD .
forth , the resulting insanaty will give you sleepless nights , make screaming all the time and probably make you try a suicide , if you are lucky enough to still have any braincells after the code has run trough the interpreter .
even right now as i type this with one hand i make a rope with the other one . but maybe its just that i have not slept in 5 days .
well have fun coding and goodbye currel world .