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Name: Anonymous 2009-05-07 0:18

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?

Name: Anonymous 2009-05-07 8:28

Perl lets you write bad programs if you are a dumbass, which any language does (although it may be easier with perl).
perl also lets you write good programs, with a small amount of effort. the fact that you can't seems to indicate that you're used to one of those languages that doesn't let you write good programs.

Why am i even replying to you, is it too difficult to capitalize your sentences?
lol french faggot can't even get that faggy french capitalization shit right.

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