note on hw's and labs


learn perl!

what is perl
	Latin	AWK
	French	gawk
	English	perl

perl is complex!
	books are too big
	man pages are too big

man perl
perl0 in my subman (cats perlop, perlfunc, perlsyn, perldata, perlre)
google!

semi-colons
variables $
printing under "", concatenation ., \n
hashes vs. arrays
lists

implicit variables $_ and @_
function parameter passing
	sub volume {
	  ($height, $width, $length) = @_;
	  return $height * $width * $length;
	}


discipline
	consistency, transparency

examples:
	hello.pl
	count.pl
	count2.pl
	date.pl
	env.pl
	env2.pl
	env3.pl
	parseq.pl
	parseq2.pl
	post.pl
	post2.pl
	add.pl
	add2.pl